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The Summer Work Experience Program in St. Paul, Minnesota, is a nine-week evaluation and work-experience program for tenth and eleventh graders. The program consists of two parts: (1) a three-week residential-living experience in which students are evaluated in the areas of daily living, orientation and mobility, socialization, vocational abilities, and career planning and (2) a six-week segment in which students work at paid jobs. Information gained from the program is used for future educational planning and guiding students toward realistic vocational goals.

This article explores the issues of professional decision‐making in legal resource allocation by examining theoretical models of professional decision‐making, and applying them in the provision of legal services for the poor. Data collected from time sheets completed by attorneys in an urban legal services program suggest the relative importance of bureaucratic, external, client‐centered, ideology, personal, and role concept factors in allocating time for practice routines. The implications of these findings for the rational (i.e., cost benefit) determination of the value of legal services are discussed.

The 1978 US Civil Service Reform Act required federal agencies to design and implement new performance appraisal systems. The CSRA intends that these reformed systems produce accurate ratings which may be used as the basis for a wide variety of personnel actions, including decisions regarding pay, promotion, and retention. In this article, we describe and analyze the responses of civilian employees at four Navy research and development laboratories where CSRA appraisal systems have been in operation since 1981. These data were obtained through questionnaires and on‐site interviews. Overall, reactions to the CSRA systems were supportive. However, signs of potentially serious long term problems may be appearing in the form of supervisory resistance to the significantly increased workload and potential for conflict associated with the new procedures. Recent changes in Office of Personnel Management policy suggest that this is a problem throughout the federal bureaucracy. The administrative‐organizational'costs' of CSRA appraisals and radically changed political priorities are likely to present formidable barriers to the complete implementation of the CSRA.

Adolescent pregnancy and parenthood remain a source of considerable concern, not only due to the well-documented adverse consequences of teenage pregnancy, but also because of certain trends that emerged during the seventies. Survey results showed a dramatic upsurge in premarital sexual activity, while pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases rose. Out-of-wedlock births also increased. The Adolescent Family Life Program is a new Federal Government effort to deal with the resultant complex of problems.