The present interlibrary loan system will need to be better organized and expanded to include centralized regional centers in order to meet the increasing volume of requests. Presently about 70% of 10 million requests are being successfully filled within regional and local systems. Two major problems of the present system are (1) unequal…

This study on the use of nonprofessionals, or teacher aides, in elementary schools reveals some significant findings on (1) division of workload in the classrooms, (2) labor costs, and (3) pupil achievement gains, specifically among disadvantaged children, when a program employing nonprofessional personnel complements the conventional teaching…

A study was conducted to learn more about the operation of the financial aid program and the students who participate in it at Modesto Junior College. Three sample groups were used: (1) all students who received financial aid in fall 1971; (2) all first-semester freshmen who received direct aid in fall 1971; and (3) third semester continuing…

This is the first report on the instructional television (ITV) project in American Samoa in which it has been possible to base conclusions on any considerable amount of hard data. There is insufficient evidence to make conclusive comparisons of academic levels in 1964, the start of the project, with those today. However, experimental evidence…

This report is presented in three sections: (1) Teacher Characteristics in Iowa, (II) Secondary Curriculum Distribution in Iowa, and (III) Educational Innovations in Secondary Curriculum for the North Central Association Schools of the Great Plains. The data are presented by pupil-enrollment categories and cost per-pupil categories and cover the…

This monograph aims at presenting information and suggestions on alternative provisions and procedures for planning and effecting needed changes in education. It outlines the kinds of studies that need to be made to facilitate rational planning, describes how these studies should be conducted, and identifies the personnel to make the studies.…

In this article, the author analyzes recent court cases that struck down State school finance systems as being inequitable. Examined are such characteristics of current finance systems as the inequalities of the property tax, the variations in per pupil expenditures, and the variations between poor and rich districts. The report includes a…

This booklet is one of a series primarily intended for those engaged in or preparing for educational planning and administration, especially in developing countries; and for those government officials and civic leaders who seek a more general understanding of educational planning and its role in overall national development. The text is concerned…

The main objectives of this report are to analyze the Nepalese experience in educational finance between 1965-66 and 1969-70 while a major educational reform was being implemented; to assess the general effects of the decentralization of educational finance on the levels and sources of finance; to assess the effects of this decentralization on…

The budget discussion guide published by Montgomery County, Maryland, Public Schools, describes the educational and financial situation and asks for citizens' priorities. (Available from Educational Communication Center, P.O. Box 657, Camp Hill, PA 17011; $12.00 annually.) (Author/MLF)

Cash budgeting concepts employed in businesses are discussed, the results of a survey of pharmacy school continuing education directors regarding their budgeting procedures are described, and suggestions on how a pharmacy school's continuing education program could be budgeted are offered. A control form for program revenues is appended. (JMD)

Fourteen states have had three to five years of experience with school-finance reform--enough to begin to provide evidence as to which, if any, fears and criticisms are valid. Here is a list of questions frequently raised in debate over school-finance reform and the answers suggested by the findings in the states with the most experience with it.…

It is possible to argue that higher education in the United States has evolved into a highly refined institutional-status hierarchy. Examines this hierarchy in both the private and public school systems with particular attention to the kinds of students attending these institutions. (Author/RK)

Categorizes corporate libraries as service organizations and discusses organizational funding of libraries and the responsibility of the librarian within this context. The use of program budgets as negotiated contracts between the library and the organization in response to budget cuts is described. (CLB)

Discusses issues involved in the allocation of book funds in academic libraries. The topics covered include faculty versus librarian control of book budgets, evaluation criteria and measurement techniques that have been used to determine allocations, and the problems with rigid mathematical approaches to allocations. (35 notes with references)…