This document examines and compares how policies for minority education in Great Britain and Sweden have developed over the last 25 years. The term "policy" is used here broadly and includes not only central but also regional decisions, and written documents as well as administration, interpretation, and application of policies. The…

These 12 papers were presented at plenary sessions of the conference. They are arranged by substance into (1) social research and public policy, (2) the need to plan: unlimited social objectives and scarce resources, (3) institutional responses to pressures for planning, (4) contemporary approaches to planning in education, and (5) social…

In the 36 gubernatorial election campaigns in 1986, many candidates are stressing the role of higher education in promoting economic development and creating new jobs, and have declared public education a top priority along with other basic state issues. (MSE)

Discusses incentives and disincentives created for local school districts by state bilingual education funding policies. Reviews the relationship between funding and bilingual education controversies centered on measuring language proficiency, establishing entrance and exit criteria, and determining effective instructional strategies. (KH)

The text of an address to the National Policy Conference on Education for Blacks, held in Arlington, Virginia, March 29-April 1, 1972. (JM)

The boom is over, and administrators must now carefully invest the resources rationed to them, mapping out a general strategy for the future. (Editor)

Prospects for a national policy for computer use in Dutch education are reviewed based on stated educational objectives. Resources and their allocation will greatly influence whether the emphasis is placed on specialized education in information science or computer literacy in all fields of study. (MSE)

The United Kingdom's Education Reform Bill of 1987 is designed to bring major changes in funding policy, governance, and conditions of faculty appointment. Similarities in policy direction in Canada and the United Kingdom suggest that the British situation may predict some aspects of the future of Canadian higher education. (MSE)

Techniques of cost-effectiveness analysis and their applications to educational policy are discussed. Recommendations are made to increase the capacity of evaluators, policy analysts, and decision makers to use these tools appropriately for resource allocation. (SLD)

A tongue-in-cheek guide for new administrators contains observations on these topics: education policy, faculty governance, the board and other constituencies, life in the bureaucratic lane, the use and abuse of resources, the administrator's worst enemy, and maintaining perspective on the job. (MSE)

Presents a simple framework for (1) demonstrating how households determine schooling investments through choice and voice; and (2) considering effects of decentralization on household behaviors, given information problems. Some aspects of decentralization may increase efficiency; others may be neutral or decrease efficiency. Further research is…

In this article, the author ponders what is becoming of childhood and young adulthood these days, especially in the context of public schooling and the high-stakes testing and accountability mania now apparently in store for children at nearly every grade level. Opposition has emerged from all corners, including both right and left on the…

This study proposes a methodology to serve as a guiding mechanism for the allocation and management of university financial resources taking efficiency as its objective. Specifically, an aid model is provided for decision making, so that the planning of staff policy within a university guarantees an equal treatment of all the teaching and research…

This report presents findings from an investigation into relationships between academic achievement and the distribution of fiscal resources among rural school districts in Oregon. The investigation was prompted by earlier-reported findings suggesting the critical nature of both achievement gaps and resource gaps among rural school districts in…

Even as the United States extends a free public education to all children, it rigs the system against the success of some of the most vulnerable by taking those who arrive at school with the greatest needs and giving them less in school. Low-income and minority students, in particular, get less of what matters most; these students get the fewest…