Personal account of his first-year experience as superintendent of the South Hamilton School District, a small rural district in Jewell, Iowa. (PKP)

Telephone interviews with 92 dentists in California identified low fees, denial of payment, and broken appointments by patients as the 3 most important problems with the Medicaid program. Results suggest reasons for the decreasing participation in Medicaid by dentists. (Author/DB)

Discusses the effective use of consultants by information professionals based on presentations at the 1990 American Society for Information Science (ASIS) annual conference. Highlights include internal and external consultants; effective communication between consultant and client; fees; budgetary considerations; funding possibilities; and…

Experts on child care discuss the effects of a recession on centers. Effects may depend on the strength of local economies and industries and the availability of public subsidies. Fund raising may become more difficult and insurance rates problematical. (SH)

Suggestions to institutions of higher education on how to go about selecting a planned giving consultant include ask colleagues from other institutions whom they've used in the past; examine written proposals from a wide range of firms; look for chemistry and credibility; check references; and button down the terms of the consultancy. (MLW)

The emergence of a coherent image of adult and continuing education has been hindered by a number of factors. First, diversity of practice has impeded a sense of common identity. Second, programs usually operate on the margins of sponsoring institutions. Third, uncertain funding and underfunding have made basic survival a high priority. (SK)

Tables compiled at Illinois State University showing state appropriations for higher education, 1988-1989, are presented, including a table showing how the states rank. (MLW)

James LeVoy Sorenson, a medical-products entrepreneur, gave the University of Utah its largest gift ever, but when controversy erupted over naming the medical school for him, he asked the university to return his gift. (MLW)

Discovering that women are more heavily represented as journal authors than as members of graduate-program departments, questions whether funding might account for these patterns. Examines acknowledgment of support in published articles, finding no significant relationships among author gender, article topic, and notation of internal funding.…

Although education is eligible for high level philanthropic funding, it receives only $4.5 billion, or 15.5 percent of private contributions. This article presents four steps to help school board members secure their fair share of private funding, including making the commitment, enlarging philanthropic understanding, developing rapport, and…

Proposes a theoretical morphology for analyzing programatic variables that directly produce social spending. Three gate variables are developed: the beneficiary population, program content, and financing rules. The analysis identifies the gatekeepers of each variable and assesses their capacity for control. (Author)

Examines the extent of nontraditional resources acquired by South Dakota high schools, examines superintendents' and principals' attitudes toward nontraditional revenue enhancement, and compares information about attitudes to reports of actual practice. South Dakota high schools are moderately successful in obtaining nontraditional revenues from…

Presents strategies to help elementary teachers win grants for the classroom. The article includes information on grant sources, where to find out more about grants, and how to write winning grants. Examples of successful grant projects are provided, and announcement of a $500 Instructor grant competition is included. (SM)

Significant differences in reasons for enrollment and 4 family support elements emerged in survey responses from 88 of 110 African Americans in adult basic education (47 of whom were persisters). Persisters were more likely to be preparing for jobs. Family attitudes, financial support, and career motivations were major factors in persistence. (SK)

Analyzes factors leading to the withdrawal from UNESCO of the United States, its leading financial contributor. Discusses the organization's structural contradiction (a majority of members contributing 1% of total funding), limited participation by successive U.S. administrations, organizational bureaucracy and mismanagement, indifference to U.S.…