Presents excerpts from an interview with Robert C. Andringa, minority staff director of the House Education and Labor Committee. Andringa argues the need for increased participation in the federal legislative process by state and local officials concerned with educational matters, and offers a number of recommendations for achieving that end. (JG)

Ten years after the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Federal Government's enforcement effort in the desegregation of State systems of higher education is just now beginning to get down to cases. An analytical account of recent developments by a newspaperman who has been a close observer of the college scene. (Editor/JF)

Ten years after the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Federal Government's enforcement effort in the desegregation of State systems of higher education is just now beginning to get down to cases. Provides the personal recollections and views of the Federal Government's first civil-rights officer for higher education. (Editor/JF)

Describes arguments for and against federal involvement in early childhood development. Proposed federal legislation on childhood development is discussed. (JF)

Report from Washington covers proposed reorganization of the federal education establishment, a study of the basic skills needed by adults, and the inverse relationship between tuition increase and state college enrollment. (MLF)

The Federal Government's current attitude toward public education is not conducive to adequate funding for education or to efficient expenditure of those monies which it provides. More important, it is a barrier to the orderly delivery of educational services and shortchanges both school children and taxpayers. (Author/JN)