The author reacts to the World Bank's 1980 Education Sector Policy Paper, considering such issues as definitions, strategic directions, loan policies, and monitoring. Part of a theme issue on the World Bank Paper and aid to educational development in Third World nations. (SJL)

Steps in devising a productivity plan in academe are described: establish boundaries within which individual unit measures must fall; develop specific and appropriate measures for personnel; and after agreeing on unit productivity, determine what will increase productivity. (MLW)

A response to Vernon's article on Public Law (PL) 94-142 (Peabody Journal of Education, v59 n1) is given. Vernon's objections to the manner in which services are provided to handicapped children through PL 94-142 concern such issues as constitutionality, excessive federal control, cost benefits, and least restrictive alternatives. Alternative…

Anticipatory leadership, which is action based on the forecasting of alternative futures, can solve many of the educational system's current and future problems. Effective resource management, a form of anticipatory leadership, can solve social, political, and educational problems of the future. (CJ)

To further expand the planning and resource allocation component of vocational education, evaluation should be incorporated into the process. Future legislation should contain evaluation elements that measure the outcomes that vocational education should be achieving to justify the funds expended. (LRA)

Higher-education administrators are alerted to the advent of the microprocessor and the capabilities of desk computers. The potential use of the microcomputer in administrative decision making, efficiency, and resource allocation are reviewed briefly. (MSE)

Trustees need to understand that they have an entrepreneurial function governed by the law of corporations, as well as governed by the law of trusts. The entrepreneurial function involves risks but its presence is seen as essential. Institutions must be looked at as businesses. (MLW)

Holds that (1) the disproportionate and discriminatory allocation of state resources to Black institutions, and (2) the reluctance of federal agencies to push for desegregation, have contributed to maintenance of the status quo with respect to the growth and development of Black universities in North Carolina. (Author/GC)

Asserts that the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, which is intended to close the achievement gap by improving schools, may be largely ineffective due to several of its questionable assumptions (e.g, school attendance is valued by and valuable to all individuals, and education creates opportunities). Suggests that simply providing the poor…

A new budgeting concept currently popular in colleges and universities, Responsibility Centered Management (RCM) holds that unit heads, who understand their operations best, should be given greater budgetary authority and responsibility. Experience with the system at Indiana University and several hypothetical cases suggest that RCM would place…

Presents six strategies by which student affairs professionals can develop management credibility and create understanding and direct support for the goals, functions, and operating approaches of their work. Emphasizes strategies for improving management within student affairs divisions to produce a better environment for working, budgeting, and…

Rather than establish a national test, we should examine what other industrialized nations require of their children. Persistence and creativity are not easily tested, and results are bound to be oversimplified. Developing basic American education standards is appropriate only if every public school is equipped with adequate resources. (MLH)

Addresses the need of devoting, during the next two years, more time to a special kind of foreign language departmental planning. This planning may determine the strength of foreign language programs at colleges and universities at the turn of the century. (GLR)

The assumption that universities derive financial benefits from intercollegiate athletics is false in most cases; sports programs can and often do drain large sums from the academic aspects of the budget. Institutional budgets can be deceptive. The case of the University of Maryland at College Park is an illustration. (MSE)

Three guiding principles provide the planner of aquatic exercise programs with a model that helps to ensure an effective program: principles of resource availability and allocation; the principle of fit, which involves matching instructor leadership style with program objectives; and the principle of attitude and perception modification. (IAH)