If economies of scale are important in secondary education, a greater degree of resource specialization and curriculum comprehensiveness should occur in larger secondary schools. Using New York State schools data, this study shows that scale economy sources are exhausted at relatively small enrollment levels, allowing only trivial gains in…

Discusses Judith Hackman's article (published in "Administrative Science Quarterly," in March 1985) theorizing about how colleges and universities allocate resources among units--an important issue in an ongoing era of budget cuts and resource reallocations. Affirms the importance of departmental centrality in resource allocation and…

The Swedish curriculum is a centrally issued and government approved document that covers goals, content, and a framework for the use of educational resources. Despite the centralized educational system, teachers make decisions about teaching practice on their own. (RB)

The components of a priority-setting system are input (clearly defined items), process (people involved, judgment, criteria), and output (listing the items in rank order). (SK)

By using the total resource approach, we have focused attention on the need to integrate human resource planning with other business plans and highlighted the importance of a productivity strategy. (Author)

Good resource management (and policy analysis) will enable us to reshape the accountability demands and questions of external forces such that both the questions and their answers can become meaningful. (Author/IRT)

This paper explores research and literature related to professional learning communities (PLCs) and describes their attributes and structures, the impact of different environments in which professional learning communities can be sustained, and the benefits for staff and students. There is consensus that PLCs can improve professional practice and…

This document describes the performance funding mission resource requirements for public institutions of higher education in South Carolina. It opens with sections of the state code, as amended in 1993, that define the annual budget requests of higher education institutions and outline the requirements for performance funding. The guiding…

The Comprehensive Interdisciplinary Developmental Services, Inc. (CIDS) offers comprehensive screening of children, especially preschool, for vision, dental, health or pediatric, speech, hearing, and motor development deficiencies. (NQ)

Discusses the problem of allocation and acquisition of resources from an administrative point of view. Suggests that an administrator's accountability as a leader is fixed in how efficiently and effectively resources are deployed in the organizational goal attainment efforts. (Author/DN)

Fort Wayne uses step allocation accounting and unit cost rates to locate the indirect costs of special -- and regular -- programs. (Author/JN)

Author offers perspectives on the word accountability and considers its implications in education. (MB)

A regional approach to Federal aid and grant consolidation provides the best management system for the nation's educational resources. (RA)