Information is one of the most important tools education decision makers need to help them effectively spend taxpayer money, allocate qualified staff, and determine the effectiveness of education investments. Decision makers must understand the role and influence of monetary and staff resources on the education system, and they must have…

In response to the need to ensure that standards fulfill their promise of supporting a system of education that leaves no child behind, McREL created a multimedia, multi-site, ongoing nationwide dialogue related to standards-based reform efforts. These dialogues provided participants with opportunities to share underlying assumptions, beliefs, and…

Argues that virtually all welfare-policy change since 1961 has served not to perfect a mechanism that would simplify the system and minimize the costs of public charity but to recognize and relieve dependency; the lesson is that reform follows reality. (Author/JM)

The author responds to Mr. Sanyal's comments which preceed his and which are addressed to the author's article ("Prospects," v2, n4, Winter 72) by discussing the issues of over-expansion of higher education in developing countries and the usefulness of manpower-forecasting in educational planning. (JH)

Develops an economic model for schooling efficiency problems. Combines estimated educational production functions and cost relationships that allow for factor substitution and quality control to find the most efficient method for producing a given output. Minimum size of school district is related to student density and other geographic area…

Author distinguishes one type of cost evaluation, cost-effectiveness analysis, from other types of cost evaluation, illustrates its use as a decision-making tool, and discusses a few of the problems associated with its application in the instructional development process. (Author)

Special education revenue sharing would recognize the important role of nonpublic schools in the educational system. (Author/JN)

Addresses the distribution and composition of educational investment among social classes, discussing topics related to equality of educational opportunity, and detailing a plan for financing equal educational opportunity. (JM)

Uses cluster analysis techniques to show that egalitarian policies in secondary education coupled with high financial inputs have measurable payoffs in higher attainment rates, based on Max Weber's notion of power'' within a community. (Author/JM)

Examines the distrubution of the human resources of teacher experience and training, and class size among Detroit's schools, with particular emphasis on relationships between the percentage of black students in a school and the quality of its instructional staff. (Author/JM)

An answer to an article by John Caughey in the July-August issue of Integrated Education." The Superintendent of Schools, Los Angeles City Schools, explains the nature of the twelve administrative areas in the city--areas intended to be responsive to local needs, yet not functioning autonomously. (JM)

Five State courts have handed down decisions which may have nation-wide impact on the manner in which tax revenues are raised and allocated for public education. (DM)

Analyzes the 1970-1971 School Profiles,'' profiling each high school in the city, in terms of per capita costs, percent other'' pupils, percent of pupils reading below grade level, percent of attendance, pupil-teacher ratio, and teacher experience. (JM)

Greater equity in the form of greater equality in expenditures may well result from the new directions being discussed for school finance, but the need for the use of greater resources to educate the disadvantaged will not be met. (Authors/AN)