Comments on issues that should arise as individual lifelong learning activities are considered for funding. Lists 13 major alternatives to public involvement in lifelong learning and suggests four directions for research to be done before large-scale public commitments to the concept are made. (BR)

This paper evaluates tax strategies designed to gain public financial support for nontraditional students in postsecondary education. Discusses both the scientific and political criteria of comprising an analytical framework used for evaluating the potential of five forms of tax allowances. (BR)

This article proposes patterns of behavior likely to characterize institutional responses to lifelong learning grants; traces the effects of the California finance law on public school districts; and analyzes the experience of one high school district as it expanded its adult education program over a four-year period. (BR)

Article examined the remedies available to states in the wake of Serrano and its progeny. As well, it analyzed the strengths and weaknesses of "district power equalizing" and "full state assumption" as alternative methods of financing schools. (Editor/RK)