Early retirement plans are perceived as being beneficial to school staff and financially advantageous to schools. Four out of the five assumptions on which these perceptions are based are incorrect. The one correct assumption is that early retirement will make affirmative action programs move ahead more rapidly. The incorrect assumptions are: (1)…

The attitude and morale of school bus drivers could be the difference between success and failure of transportation systems. (Author/MLF)

In five high schools electricity is providing the benefits of flexible comfort conditioning as well as savings in space, initial costs, and operating expenses. (Author/MLF)

Analyzed are some selected studies on the social impact of resources development and construction projects including dams, highways, nuclear power plants and strip mines. The analytical and methodological problem of assessing differential impacts is stressed. (BT)

A crisis may be developing between two separate American institutions: free enterprise and education. The author discusses the various ways of resolving these difficulties by acknowledging the interdependency between the two. (Author/BP)

By placing the entrance to the site near existing trees on the property, landscaping costs were reduced. (Available from 1221 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020, $15.00 annually.) (Author/MLF)

Open and closed plan spaces provide a variety of teaching opportunities. (Available from 1221 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020, $15.00 annually.) (Author)

Computer simulation was used to determine the most economical of eight school plan configurations to house the programs of this school. (Available from 1221 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020, $15.00 annually.) (Author/MLF)

Accountability to parents, taxpayers, the policy, conflicts over accountability, intellectuals and accountability, accountability and immigrants, accountability in New York, and accountability and national family policy are discussed here. (Author/AM)

A computer reduces electricity and steam costs at Columbia University by turning off one or more air-handling devices for a short period of time if the demand exceeds a pre-set target. (Author/MLF)

One of the spaces in the renovated Carnegie Library in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, is used for a theater with rented seating, stage, production, and costumes returned when no longer needed. (Author/MLF)

Results of a study of small short-stay profit and nonprofit hospitals show significant differences in organizational relationships. It is suggested that the profit making orientation of hospitals is a significant contextual property which influences the relationships of hospital structure and community wealth to hospital efficiency and…

Meal coupons; USDA plan caters to children's tastes; students run $2.5 million commissary operation. (Author)