Aimed at persons planning and implementing strategies for documenting school improvements, this paper is comprised of four sections. The first section distinguishes between national problems in education and federal issues in education (a distinction considered necessary for planning evaluations and establishing priorities for federally sponsored…

This paper examines the government's authority to regulate indecent broadcasts, beginning with a historical overview of the Federal Communication Commission's (FCC) involvement with broadcast indecency and its application in case law. First Amendment considerations are discussed and some suggestions are made regarding how the Commission should…

In recent years, television spot advertising has become an important part of political campaigns because it allows candidates to select the most favorable content, medium, time, and audience available to them. In the 1984 United States Senate campaign in Michigan, both the incumbent, Democrat Carl Levin, and the challenger, Republican Jack Lousma,…

In his introductory address to the 1981 National Conference on Technology and Education, Congressman George E. Brown, Jr., discusses recent congressional activity in the area of information technology. According to Brown, the testimony presented at recent congressional hearings made it clear that technological change was occurring rapidly and that…

In this speech, the Assistant Attorney General of the Federal Civil Rights Division outlines Title VII enforcement activities in order to support the assertion that the Reagan administration is sincerely committed to equal employment opportunity. The major points emphasized are that the administration believes race to be an impermissible basis on…

Government funded research is approaching 60 percent of the total research conducted in this country and is still growing as a percentage of the total. The government patent policy during the 1960s and 1970s is briefly outlined and shown as permitting the agencies to use their discretion to determine whether or not the normal incentives of the…

The executive director of the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science presents her personal views on changes in the role of the government in information and the changing role of the Commission as reflected in its current and proposed activities. The strengths of the U.S. information community and its position in the international…

Although the federal role in education has expanded over the last ten years, critics have only recently begun to examine what this means to educational policy-making. Theorists, empirical researchers, and policy-makers need to examine a number of questions. (1) Why and how does the national government involve itself in public education? (2) What…

The great changes that have taken place in educational systems in the last fifteen years have caused ministries of education to make considerable modification in their structure and ways of operating. These changes have been brought about by the explosion in the number of schools, the changes in public opinion regarding the role of education, and…

Using as a data base a sample of 1,939 projects dealing with research and development, a comparison was made to determine the qualitative differences in types of projects funded by the National Institute of Education (NIE) and the United States Office of Education (USOE) for children and youth. Variables of interest include type of research,…

What is the current position of higher education among national priorities? Three different comparisons are examined to establish a frame of reference to assess where higher education stands with respect to the total commitment of the federal government. The total commitment is compared with the level of support for higher education in earlier…

Reviewed in the speech by John Ottina, the U.S. Commissioner of Education, are trends in the federal government's role in education for the handicapped and current federally funded projects serving the handicapped. Noted is program growth from subsidies for just two facilities 20 years ago to the current annual budget of $300 million to support…

This article is concerned with the aged and looks briefly at the history of federal involvement in mental health care, discusses current trends, and examines the future of mental health care in the United States. (CMG)

Provides six presentations from the 38th National Conference of the National Association of College Admissions Counselors (NCAC), Minneapolis, MN, 1982. The topics focus on the need to: reestablish education as a national priority; examine the federal role in postsecondary education; assist transfer students; and help guidance personnel analyze…

Identifies problematic points in the transfer of information from government to library to user, and discusses government accountability, survey results concerning publications being cataloged, use studies, the conversion of Government Printing Office publications to microformat, and federal economizing measures. Fourteen references are cited.…