Two articles explore the process of budgeting for library technical services and the impact of automation on this process in terms of equipment expenditures. The second article describes the retrenchment and fund raising activities of a public library in financial difficulty and their effects on future plans for the library. (CLB)

The National Parent Teacher Association (PTA) provides a planning guide insert to help PTA's strengthen parent and community involvement in schools. Includes discussion of improving parent involvement in schools, activities that help parents help their children, development of parents as volunteers, steps to increase parent involvement in school…

Critiques the effectiveness of various National Endowment for the Arts programs which sought to develop a broad and discerning audience for the arts. Explores the underlying reasons for the failure of government policy in arts education to promote aesthetic welfare and educational/cultural participation. (TRS)

Scott Thomson, executive director of the National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP), is interviewed about his expectations for education during the 1980s. He expresses an optimistic attitude and feels that education will continue to be one of the major priorities in the nation through the 1990s. (MD)

This document is designed to help accelerate and strengthen state policy initiatives that promote student success; and derive lessons from this work about strategies for influencing the allocation of resources, the transparency of and accountability for results, and the rules that shape how institutions make decisions about priorities and…

A foreword and 11 articles discuss the nature and structure of public scholarship. The contents include: "Foreword" (Deborah Witte); (1) "Public Scholarship: The Dissemination of Knowledge" (Jean Cameron) which maintains the public has claims on higher education as a creator and disseminator of knowledge; (2) "Daring to Be…

This report presents the Illinois governor's fiscal year 2001 budget, focusing on higher education. The governor has proposed a fiscal year 2001 state budget totaling $46.5 billion. The budget includes $3.4 billion for higher education operations and grants, which is an increase of $181 million, or 5.7 percent, over fiscal year 2000. This report…

A parent from Montgomery County (Maryland) explains why she enrolled her children in private schools despite her previous support for public education. Her reasons include budget cuts, racial quotas, and concern about educational quality, school discipline, and drugs. (PP)

Governmental financial support and leadership in international education are discussed. The private sector has contributed many associations to meet varied needs of the field including professional skills development, community service, area expertise, commitment to academic excellence, and interaction with the federal government. (MLW)

Will greater school choice result in more responsive, higher quality schools and happier parents? Or will proliferating options further sort students and families by race, social class, and special interest? Increasingly, education is viewed as a private good. If parents become autonomous, self-interested consumers, erosion of common purposes and…

Asserts that educational research always has suffered from severe underfunding by comparison with research in the natural sciences. Argues that educational researchers have an obligation to raise the "educational literacy" of the general public. Discusses the need to improve the quality of educational research. (CFR)

Asserts art educators must increase public relations efforts to ensure parents and community understand importance of art education in the general curriculum. Describes a school community relations campaign for an elementary art education program. Includes suggestions for identifying goals for the campaign, meeting the interests of the audience,…

Argues that advocates of content-based art education and other art educators attempting to move art to a central place in the school curriculum are struggling against unrecognized social realities. Concludes that competing value structures of creativity versus acquiescence and originality versus conformity are responsible. (CFR)

This handbook offers strategies for school principals who have become the primary marketer for their schools. It is designed to help them draw on school and community resources to build a support base of human, material, and financial capital. Much of the material is based on practicing administrators' responses to a survey sent to "Principals of…

A feasibility study to gauge support for a Further Education (FE) Marketing Unit provided information on FE's image. Many persons occupying positions of authority in FE colleges in Britain see FE as possessing a negative image. Another group stresses the lack of any image whatsoever. Despite the difficulties colleges experience in recruiting from…