A broader form of cost recovery for higher education, repayment in-kind through national or community service is considered. Focus is on the experience of developing countries, where such programs for students and graduates emphasize personal development rather than potential contribution to society. Ways of redesigning programs to constitute a…

According to 200 usable responses from 725 government agencies, about 25% mandate preretirement programs, 52% offer them. Their use as a strategy to open career paths may backfire and discourage retirement. Many of these programs are failing to recognize the growing diversity of the workforce. (SK)

The OERI-funded research summarized in this special "Kappan" section constitutes a "trickle-up" research agenda animated by real respect for local autonomy and unwavering commitment to public service. The most valuable research will emerge from a collaborative culture uniting university-based researchers, K-12 practitioners and…

Discussion of federal information policy focuses on a study that was conducted to identify federal information/locator systems, i.e., databases that identify information resources. The development of a database containing information on the systems is described, and the concept of a governmentwide information inventory/locator system (GIILS) is…

Progressive-era bureaucrats viewed subdivision of Indian lands, establishment of tribal governments, and transfer of federal responsibilities to the states as stages of a single policy of gradual integration of Indians. Arthur Ludington's 1912 long-term plan for citizenship training and assimilation accurately anticipated events of the next 50…

Twenty-nine nonprofit organizations receiving a total of $10 million or more in contracts from the Department of Defense are listed, with total dollars noted for each. The figures cover only contracts of $25,000 or more for research, development, testing, and evaluation of military projects and for civilian water-resource projects. (Author/MSE)

Research and other projects for which Congress has directed federal agencies to provide support in fiscal 1992 are listed for over 200 colleges and universities. In each case, the agencies did not request money for the projects and did not sponsor merit-based competitions to determine which institutions should get the awards. (MSE)

Presents five principles of environmental justice to promote procedural, geographic, and social equity: (1) guaranteeing the right to environmental protection; (2) preventing harm before it occurs; (3) shifting the burden of proof to the polluters; (4) obviating proof of intent to discriminate; and (5) redressing existing inequities. Includes…

Suggests a framework for federal leadership in redesigning national education dissemination system to enhance use of educational research and development. Components of framework are education resources, dissemination functions, bureaucratic levels, content focus related to users' needs, and participants' roles and skills. Described are current…

Explains federal agency employment practices and the Civil Service system. Charts 116 occupations in federal agencies, including educational qualifications, numbers employed, and employing agencies. (SK)

Under a new cost-management plan at the National Institutes of Health, overhead rates charged on research grants, as part of the total project cost, could be a determining factor on "marginal" proposals. Some feel universities will learn to be more economical; others feel the policy penalizes one group of universities. (MSE)

Discussed are the efforts of the Pentagon to help U.S. companies remain competitive in high-tech civilian markets. The tug-of-war for these companies between Congress, which has come to view them as a vehicle for pork-barrel funding, and the administration, which is trying to rein them in, is described. (KR)

The 1916 Federal Employees' Compensation Act is still the focal point around which the federal workers compensation program works today. The program has gone through many changes on its way to becoming a modern means of compensating workers for job-related injury, disease, and death. (Author)

A six-state study on the movement of women into the managerial ranks of state government found that men hold disproportionately more elite positions, but there is progress being made in including women in higher echelon jobs. Women are faring better at the state level in regard to advancement opportunities and rewards than they are at the federal…

Three articles discuss major issues dealing with federal information management and policy currently being debated in the U.S. Congress. Topics discussed include the Government Printing Office Improvement Act of 1990; the Federal Information Resources Management Act of 1989; and modernization of the National Technical Information Service. (43…