CONTENTS: Foreword/Part I. Policy Research in Perspective/The Place of Policy in Sociology/Knowledge Utilization in Decision Making: Reflections on the terms of the discussion/Part II. The Contract Evaluation Industry/Scholarship and Contract Reseearch: AProblem of integration/Some Issues in Policy/Evaluation Research/ Part III. The Governement Funding Context/Implementation of Federal Education Policy: Research and analysis/ Doing Policy Research in a Policy Vacuum/The Impact of Federal Program Officerson Federal-Local Relationships/Part IV. Approaches to Research on Programmatic and Regulatory Policies/Mandatory Collaboration through Federal Legislation: YEDPA and the CETA/School Linkage/The White Flight Controversy: Policy implications, private school enrollment in the 1970s: Trends, issues and implications/Assessing School Desegration Effects: New directions in research/Some Uses of Sociological Theroy in Educational Evaluation.