Emphasizes the history of educational planning in the United States and draws implications from that history. (IRT)

This paper provides two perspectives, one written by a planner, the other by a researcher, of how the planning and research functions can be made integral to decision-making in public service organizations. (Author)

Explains a California school district's successful development of school effectiveness policies to promote student achievement for all children. Milpitas Unified School District discovered that change must be clearly defined, clearly focused, and based on solid research. (MLH)

Planning means knowing what you wish to do, developing a program to do it, and anticipating the context in which you will have to act. The role of the planning official is to point out options and consequences, not to take responsibility for any policy or pattern of decision. (Author/WM)

This working paper focuses on the educational planner as a bureaucratic actor. To explain planner influence or lack of influence in the policymaking process, practitioners need to explore the micropolitics of organizations and understand individual, organizational, and situational forces demanding their engagement. Planners need an engaged…

Several questions for educational policy response are raised in this critique of the draft report of the Commission on Post Secondary Education in Ontario, Canada. (JH)

Summarizes much of the discussion and conclusions from the 1970 Paris Conference of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Describes relevant issues and questions to be addressed continuously if planning is to be a relevant guide to choice and action affecting current problems and alternative futures for education in the…

Analyzes recent educational policy changes and resultant dilemmas for educational planners and administrators in Saskatchewan, Canada, within the context of this province's political history and unique features. Presents coping strategies for other planners faced with rapid and radical change. Includes five references. (MLH)

Examines some of the effects of military rule and military forms of decision-making on educational planning in Nigeria. (Author)