Workshop conferees looked at alternative organizations for planning, the place of planning in the decision making process, major social impacts that must be included in the planning process, the identity of planning agents, technical support needed by planners, and improved project planning. (Author/MLF)

Administrators of the fastest growing school district in Illinois have coped with enrollment planning. In addition to enrollment projection techniques, school staff attend city and county planning meetings and also count the number of housing units occupied and under construction. (MLF)

Two Vermont school systems discovered that adapting enrollment projection models to each locale's population trends yielded useful results and facilitated municipal planning. Recommendations include basing projections on accurate assumptions and data, performing frequent information analyses, letting facts speak for themselves, and recognizing…

The children of the baby boom generation, the baby boom echo, are overwhelming the capacity of U.S. schools. This report describes how increased enrollments are affecting schools in Maryland, Georgia, Colorado, Washington State, and California. Each state report draws on specific examples of enrollment growth that were taken from school districts.…

As the birthrate plunges, a resourceful building team finds school construction activity shifting to conversions, renovations, and the design of new schools called human resource centers. Describes programs in Thomas Jefferson Junior High School in Arlington, Virginia; the Whitman Center in Pontiac, Michigan; and the John F. Kennedy School and…

The 53rd annual study of collegiate enrollments shows 4,755,795 full-time, 1,651,255 part-time, and 6,407,050 grand total students enrolled. Teachers colleges show loss of 5.6 per cent students while professional, technological, and related schools are up 1.2 per cent. (DS)

Describes a physical facilities information retrieval system that correlates new school construction with student enrollment. (MF)

Greater attention must be given to student recruitment to ease fiscal and academic problems. (IR)

Middle level principals should take the leadership role now in responding to the issues of (1) reduction of middle level teacher ranks to meet the coming elementary and high school teacher shortage and (2) the need for computer literacy training for teachers. (MLF)

The implications of demographic trends for the system of higher education in Spain are assessed. Also discussed are the peculiarities of population trends in Spain compared with other European countries, and the formulation of future projections of enrollment, and the relative importance of demographic factors. (Author/MLW)

Describes a study conducted to determine the accuracy of the Cohort-Survival Method of Enrollment Forecasting, based on enrollment data collected over a ten-year period from a random sample of 42 Missouri school districts. Compares forecast accuracy with the enrollment stability and location of each of the districts. (JP)

The critical issue of manpower in optometry is discussed in terms of widespread shortages and the decline in the number of applicants for admission to schools of optometry. (JMF)

Forces affecting declining enrollments in schools, colleges of education, and special education are traced, and factors which may offset the declines in special educaton preservice enrollments are identified. The importance of upgrading competencies of special education teachers certified through marginal programs is emphasized. (CL)

Principals, assistant principals, and headmasters tell how their schools are coping with declining enrollments. (IRT)

A model projecting school enrollment by using births lagged an appropriate number of years and a model using lagged births and the previous year's enrollment were applied to two school grade levels and state and county levels in Kentucky. The model using lagged births and earlier figures provided better predictions. (SLD)