This paper reports on the economic returns to investment in education in a large number of countries and attempts to trace patterns that might exist between the returns to education and other socio-economic characteristics of the countries involved. (Author/RY)

Teacher characteristics were compared to student achievement and combined with data on recruitment costs for new teachers. Recruiting and retaining teachers with high verbal scores as found to be 5 to 10 times as effective per dollar spent as obtaining teachers with more experience. (BC)

The administrator has four options in choosing the most practical method of administrative, instructional and research computer usage. (Editor)

Boston University's film library offered rental of its 16mm films to a local school district and found it more advantageous financially than outright purchase. (Author)

This article describes a new program directed toward preparing principals to function as change agents in elementary and secondary schools in Appalachia. Program evaluation procedures that include cost effectiveness analysis based on Bayesian statistics are described in detail. (JH)

Prodded by USOE officials, congressmen and cost-conscious citizens, administrators are focusing on what comes out of their schools--not what goes in. (Author/KJ)