This School Research Newsletter presents the research program of the National Swedish Board of Education (NBE), as adopted by the NBE Board of Directors in June 1982. The successive decisions on decentralization taken in the educational sector since 1976 have led also to a decision to alter the thrust of the research and development work within at NBE's sphere of responsibility. Development work is now essentially the responsibility of the local school system, while NBE still retains its responsibility and resources for overall research. In its research program, NBE considers certain general principles of research policy in the Swedish system, and the consequences it has drawn from these regarding research in education. It also indicates the general bases for NBE's research planning, where the most important reorientation relates to the increasingly strong linkage between research and long-term educational planning. (Author)