Defends the Reagan Administration's policies encouraging more effective school disciplinary practices. Argues that the critics of these policies are ignoring both the rights of students who want to learn and the true extent of the discipline problem. (PGD)

Concludes that Franklin D. Roosevelt changed the pattern of press-government relations with his organized publicity system. (FL)

Election results are reported for members of Senate committees and subcommittees (Human Resources; Appropriations; Agriculture; Budget; Commerce, Science, and Transportation; Finance; and Veterans' Affairs), and House committees/subcommittees (Education and Labor; Appropriations; Agriculture; Budget; Energy and Commerce; Science and Technology;…

The Assistant Secretary for Human Development Services (DHHS) highlights Federal legislation and involvement in the field of adoption and foster care, with a focus on handicapped children. Private sector involvement is also discussed. (CMG)

Discusses criticism of the Environmental Impact Statements now required for any proposed action by a federal agency. Stresses the advantages of using these statements, and how their quality standards can be raised. (MLH)

Described are the activities of Scientific advisers in the state of Michigan from 1967 to date. (SL)

Provides a set of sample questions for guidance in assessing the changes that need to be made at schools in order to implement the federal law on sex discrimination in the classroom. (Author/RK)

In the absence of any new Presidential initiatives, no new federal intervention looms for education. The congressional mood is concerned with fine-tuning programs already on the books--making them work better for schools and students. It is certainly not with dreaming up expansive (and expensive) new programs. (Author/IRT)

Reviews congressional debate concerning the 1977 National Science Foundation proposed budget. Reports major congressional debate centered on the proposed funding for the Science for Citizens program. (SL)

The author shares some of the failures and successes of the application of the futures perspective in college teaching, government planning and evaluation, and educational administration at the college level. (Author/IRT)

Since the 1965 passage of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which concentrated unprecedented authority over American education in the hands of the federal government, federal lawmakers have passed increasingly restrictive laws and drastically escalated education spending, which ballooned from around $25 billion in 1965 (adjusted for…

The funding of K-12 public schools in Ohio is a joint effort with 7.4 percent coming from the federal government, 47 percent coming from local sources and 45.6 percent coming from the state, based on FY04 revenue (the latest data available). Of the approximately $6.8 billion in state aid, about 80 percent is distributed through the Ohio School…

The federal government provides student loans for college and graduate school in two ways: by: (1) guaranteeing bank loans; and (2) by lending directly to students. Approximately three-quarters of federal student loans are guaranteed and one-quarter are direct. In the guaranteed loan program, a 40-year-old system, banks lend students money and…

This June 2003 issue of "Federal Literacy Facts" contains the following sections: (1) Parliamentary Committee Releases Groundbreaking Report on Literacy; (2) Key Recommendations from the Report; (3) Literacy Community's Strength Influences Committee Members; (4) What's Next: Where Do the Recommendations Go from Here?

The author worked in Nigeria for eleven years, for some of the time as a teacher, and for part of the time as a school inspector. In this article the author reflects upon the progress of the Nigerian Federal Inspectorate of Education, its inception, including the reasons for its formation, its early history and that of other educational…