Paper delivered to the the Council of Academic Societies, Chicago, Illinois, February 1970. (IR)

Presented before the Council of Academic Societies, Chicago, Illinois, February 1970. (IR)

Per-pupil cost of preventive high school programs compared with cost of remedial manpower programs. (Editor)

Described is a project in which five schools in the Boston area joined forces to buy their own computers in order to reduce the cost of using the machines. (LS)

The relationship between military expenditure and the stimulation of aggregate demand, inflation, investment, trade balance, foreign exchange, the improvement of taxation, and employment creation and industrialization in the Third World is analyzed. To some extent military expenditure does promote economic growth, but it does not automatically…

Explains how affective education for students, teachers, and administrators can save schools money on such items as substitute pay, student retention, vandalism, and teacher transfers. (Author/JM)

Makes a case for magnet schools, especially as part of desegregation efforts. Briefly describes magnet schools around the country and some of their problems. (JM)

Although California schools are experiencing cutbacks, the cause may be declining enrollment rather than Proposition 13. A less debatable result of Proposition 13 is greater state control of education's purse strings. (Author/JM)

Cost per student disparity is examined with focus on: the concept of educational cost per student; dispersion of unit cost; cost comparisons among similar institutions; cost comparisons among the states; and institutional differences in the internal allocation of expenditures. Academic freedom, program variety, and institutional objectives may…

Concludes that most college libraries do not meet ACRL standards criteria for collection size, development, staff, and budget. This study is based on data obtained from the 1977 Higher Education General Information Surveys by the National Center for Education Statistics. References are provided. (RAA)

Presents the rationale, method, results, analysis, and discussion of a survey of public libraries in the United States and Canada which asked for sex of director, director's salary, director's length of tenure, size of population served, per capita support, and beginning professional salary. This study extends work by Carpenter and Shearer (1972).…

Models of regulatory policy based on industrial organization theory can be applied to governmental coordination in higher education. They show that the relationship between costs and enrollment depends on student demand. When demand is stable or decreasing, governments should promote competition and keep costs down by reducing regulation. (RW)