With dropping enrollment, the purely arithmetical view dictates school closures. But this changes if we look toward desired future qualities of the educational system. Factors which may need consideration include additional space for more flexible teaching, increased organizational emphasis on human relationships, and greater community…

If schools respond to the challenge of declining enrollments with a clear and expanded sense of purpose, encompassing the concept of adult and lifelong learning, they may find opportunities which will ensure continuous renewal. (Author/SJL)

Summary of the discussion document, issued by the Department of Education and Science and the Scottish Education Department, that considers the implications of declining enrollment in primary and secondary schools in Britain for the pattern of higher education over the next 15 years. Policy options are explored. (Author/JMD)

Discusses reasons for the decline in literature enrollments and methods available for stimulating student interest. These include extensive publicity, expanding course offerings to include popular genres and media, offering special studies courses whose focus changes each semester, and the learning contract, where student and instructor develop…

The result of declining enrollment is more and more frequently the closing of elementary and secondary schools. Discusses some community reaction to these closing schools. Also describes the efforts of Loyola University's physicist Jeffry Mallow to help otherwise healthy and intelligent college students to overcome their anxiety about science…

Explores whether Kentucky high schools have increased the opportunity for economic education and understanding during the period 1966-1975. Discusses course enrollment, teacher preparation, and textbooks. Concludes that the goal of economic education should be more aggressively pursued. Available from: School of Education, University of…

A growing worry for college admissions officers: Will enough students show up to fill the dorms and pay the profs? (Editor)

Reports on the efforts of teachers and parents to fight the threatened closure of secondary schools under the province of the ILEA. (RK)

Discusses possible collective bargaining provisions for dealing with the economic impact of declining public school enrollments, with particular attention to considerations involving the reduction in force of teachers. Presents the National Education Association's proposed contract language governing reduction in force procedures. (JG)

In one of the three major presentations at the 54th Annual CEFP/I Conference, public mistrust in the schools is discussed and Pino states that we should be looking at the year 2000, and working ourselves back to the present. (Author/MLF)

A guide for educators and citizens seeking alternative uses of vacant facilities. Discusses local, legal, economic, and social issues involved. Describes some of the alternative facility uses that include human service centers; use by other government agencies; and conversion to housing, private schools, colleges, and adult education facilities.…

Proposes an approach to "marketing" the community college and thus increasing its support, enrollments, and financial backing. (DC)

Declining enrollment, financial trouble, and larger college graduating classes from schools of education all contribute to the spiraling problem of teacher layoff and unemployment. (JD)

Explores relationships between school district enrollment and the internal allocation of resources across subject areas of the curriculum. Empirical work is based on a random sample of 79 New York state school districts and includes cross-sectional as well as longitudinal results. (MLF)

Noting that economic crisis until recently was considered a peculiar characteristic of free-enterprise economies, this article provides factual information demonstrating the economic crisis in the planned economies of eastern Europe. It describes in detail the consequences of the crisis for education in Poland. (JDH)