Information concerning educational conditions in the southern Appalachian region is scattered, fragmentary, and often partisan to the assumption either that conditions are ideal or that they are inconceivably bad. The purpose of this study is to draw together the available facts in the case. Necessarily, this study is largely statistical. The…

An average of 1,000 school consolidations were formed yearly; public money spent for pupil transportation increased about three and one-half million dollars annually; and the number of one-room schools in the United States decreased about 4,500 a year, during the period from 1918 to 1922. These are the rates at which three important movements in…

The American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) is the primary advocacy organization for the nation's 1,151 two-year, degree-granting institutions and their 10 million students. AACC promoted the causes of its members through: (1) Policy Initiatives; (2) Advocacy; (3) Research and information; (4) Education Services; and (5) Coordinating.…

Article considered the need for better cost accounting and for realistic planning for the future of Catholic education. (Author/RK)

Presents a detailed State-by-State and regional breakdown of expenditure by public elementary and secondary schools for instructional materials and equipment during the school year 1972-73. The total figure was almost $1.5 billion, or $32.04 per student, by far the greater part of this being for materials rather than equipment. (WM)

A series of articles by attorneys and educators on the impact of the recent Supreme Court decision on State school finance schemes. (JF)

Discusses experience of using Dorsett M-86 audio-visual response teaching machines to teach basic statistics courses. Recommends further research in the design of the optimal mix of various teaching methods for a block of instruction. (CC)

Discusses the current financial status of educational institutions in connection with the development of computerized prescriptive and self-paced multimedia learning systems. Indicates the importance of designing less labor-intensive teaching processes in future engineering education. (CC)

Reviews past studies of the relationship between school inputs and student achievement. Concludes that the evidence is not all in and that researchers are drawing different conclusions influenced as much by their prejudices as by their methods of inquiry. (Author/JF)

Summarizes the legal and economic issues raised in a court case over differences in per-pupil spending between black and white schools in Washington, D.C. (BH)

Examines the conditions that are forcing the Federal Government to take the first serious steps toward an overhaul of educational finances. Predicts that the local property tax will soon be supplemented by substantial State and federal support. Describes potential revisions in the tax structure that would call for equal sharing of the education…