Argues that in a planning, programing, budgeting system (PPBS), planning and programing must come first and jointly. As a result of this mix, the author contends, a new form of budgeting develops that unifies goals, programs, and costs, showing both interrelationships and cross-effects. Describes a school district's application of this form of…

The case history method is used to demonstrate how school psychologists actually perform and to illustrate some of the general characteristics of the ecological approach; it also demonstrates how teacher consultation, family therapy, and student role-playing are organized into a meaningful and unified strategy directed at helping a child in…

Comprehensive planning, construction management, phased design/construction, systems building, and value analysis are techniques being implemented by architect/engineers. (Author)

Systems analysis is not a panacea, but can be a useful tool in a more rational accomplishment of educational goals. (RA)

Outline of a framework for conceptualizing the business enterprise-environment relationship, a necessary first step in constructing an effective management control system. (Author/RA)

Reports on a study to investigate use of and trends in systems analysis in a selected list of educational institutions. (JF)

Training of systems analysts requires development of understanding and job skill in certain background areas (creativity, work simplification and organization studies), hardware topics (unit record setup and computer programing), and analysis techniques (computer systems design, statistics and operations research). (Author/EB)

As school districts increasingly acquire administrative application software, a concern will be to maintain compatability levels among programs. How to determine compatability levels and software integration needs are discussed, as well as ways to integrate specific application and general application software. (MBR)

This critical analysis argues against the use of results from a computer model to project the growth and decay of cities as proposed by Forrester in his book "Urban Dynamics." (EB)