Byra L4:1 is the Swedish research and development program in education. The authors, while basically enthusiastic about the center, suggest the following ways of improving its operation: explicate priorities for basic and applied research and development, fund all professors and docents for basic research of greatest interest to them, establish centers or coordinated multi-investigator projects for applied research on broad problem areas, strengthen technical support by sharing services, schedule inter-visitation program for institute professors, carry out systematic progress evaluation of projects, involve junior researches in anonymous review of research reports, initiate a school research abstracts series, insist on explicit conceptual frameworks for projects, and set up some development centers headed by permanent associate professors of development. Budget proposals by the Board of Education for school research in 1972-73 are appended. (JK)