Suggests avenues of support for professional development in addition to a strong legislative role. (Editor/SB)

Career education is not a major OE priority in name only, a paper goal; career education is the major objective of the Office of Education at this moment in time and will remain so for the foreseeable future. Excerpts from prepared text of the Commissioner's address at the 1971 annual meeting of American Vocational Association. (Author/MU)

Promotes the argument favoring State support of schools. (LN)

Personal interview with Walter Heller, Professor of economics at the University of Minnesota.

Through statistical analysis the brief attempts to add to discussion of complex issues involved in the closing by the federal/state/vocational rehabilitation system of over 31,000 cases of persons with legal blindness and other visual impairments during 1980. (MC)

Examines content and authorship patterns of articles published in major educational journals from 1973 through 1978. Analyzes data on articles published about women and education and articles authored by women in education. Explains use of computer searching for information and computer analysis of statistical data. (PR)

Justifies continued categorical funding for home economics and consumer education by noting the improvement in programs and the number of persons served. (JOW)

A study of the Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants program in the 1980-81 award period revealed that the state allotment formula produces a distribution of funds that undermines, rather than supports, the SEOG program's statutory purpose of delivering funds to needy students. (MLW)

Flaws in the New Communities program that are discussed in this essay include: (1) defective financial arrangements; (2) a lack of strategic aims and/or a special constituency; (3) inadequate backing by State and local governments; (4) poor leadership; (5) insufficient provisions for dealing with a poor national economy; and (6) private developer…

Gone are the days of minimal state and federal involvement in education. Educators today must understand the workings of government, politics, and public finance. (Author/MLF)

Summarizes the child care and welfare provisions of the 1996 welfare reform act. Argues that the new law spells tougher fights ahead to increase or even maintain state child care funding. Urges advocates to "reposition" child care to convince others of its central role in solving social problems. (EV)

The use of a student loan secondary market by a lender under the federally guaranteed Stafford Student Loan Program can be a shock to a student unfamiliar with the role secondary markets play. The first student loan secondary market (Student Loan Marketing Association, or Sallie Mae) was created in 1973. (MLW)

This paper discusses the funding status of Canadian universities which are referred to as "creatures of the provinces" as their principal funding comes from the provincial governments. Their other main source of funds is tuition and academic fees which are themselves subject to government regulations. Together, 78 to 89 percent of…