The first section of this paper presents the results of Ohio's 1999-2000 Annual Education Technology Assessment. Topics addressed include: the assessment methodology, progress toward eight SchoolNet goals, and better state and local decisions; overall progress toward building the infrastructure and fostering the growth of new practices; and needed…

The dominant view today is of a global knowledge-based economy, driven by the application of new technologies, accelerating the shift to high-skilled, high-waged European economies. This view is reflected in the expansion of higher education and the key role of higher education in national and European economic policy. The Lisbon agenda seeks to…

The author of "Dilemmas of Educational Development" (AA 521 911) answered his critics, Carnoy, Devon, Petty, and La Belle, who commented earlier in this journal. (RK)

The three essays in this publication consider the relationship between human capital investment and economic development, particularly in the context of developing countries. The first article (by Aklilu Habte) reviews the experiences of the World Bank in lending for education, curriculum development, and vocational training. The role of education…

The relationship of educational development to economic systems and the inappropriateness of western educational models for use in developing nations is examined. (DE)

This comment on the Report of the International Commission on the Development of Education calls for further critical assessment by relating education to other areas of development, specifically economy. Several of the Report's financial remedies and priorities in the area of employment opportunities are analyzed from this viewpoint. (KM)

Interprets the efforts to reduce poverty and socio-cultural disadvantage in the Lesser Slave Lake Region, one of Canada's foremost case studies in rational planning and development. (Author/JM)

Recent work in the economics of education provides some general presumptions, such as those in favour of investing in primary education and opposed to vocational education, but the problem area on which future research ought to focus is the relationship of schooling to the labour market. (Author/JB)

Describes the role of education in the development of the economy of a village in Sichuan province. Uses the planning employed by this village as a model and furnishes examples of specific steps taken to confront multiple problems in providing education for growth and economic development. (NL)

Criticizes Zachariah's use of microlevel metaphors ("lumps of clay" and "growing plants") to explain major trends in theories of education and national development in developing countries. Discusses emergence of a neo-Marxist perspective on this area of comparative education. Suggests the need for a theoretical perspective…

Norwegian official development assistance to education has been profoundly shaped by the political and ideological attitudes of successive national governments. Yet successive coalition governments of highly-contrastive kinds can alike be seen to have been strongly influenced by the policy content, language and underlying assumptions of World Bank…

The role of education in the developmental process is analyzed based on an examination of economic concepts, models in educational planning, and the notion of education as an investment in human capital. An alternative model is presented which focuses on an integrated approach to development and education. (Author/EC)

The author examines positive and negative effects of increased development upon educational systems. Development overburdens educational systems by providing new needs but also new opportunities for innovation. (DE)

Nigeria's Western Region established a very early, ambitious, original education policy when self-government began in 1952, adopting the African nationalist wisdom that education could spearhead a development strategy for genuine independence. Much of this paper analyzes the philosophy and recounts the implementation of this comprehensive,…

In this paper, one of a series of Unesco technical reports, the author examines the idea of "technical cooperation among developing countries" (TCDC) and how it might lead to a "new international economic order" (NIEO). The first part of the paper contains a short history of TCDC. TCDC is seen by many as a self-help cooperative…