This report is the result of a 2-year study of Wisconsin's educational system in which over 600 men and women and some 3000 students participated. Volunteer citizen task forces, which provided data and recommendations for the Commission's consideration, addressed themselves to 4 major issues: organization of the educational system for effective…

This preliminary report summarizes the Commission's underlying assumptions concerning financing education, state and regional planning and coordination, student and community participation, teacher education, new approaches, the special problem of the Milwaukee area, and the role of private education. Its recommendations cover: the establishment…

This paper examines how the Melrose-Mindoro School District, a rural school district in Wisconsin, implemented curriculum reform. Current national reform agendas focus on the organization of student learning experiences, the roles teachers assume in schools, and the organization and management of schools. Equally important in implementing change…

A 1979 study conducted by the Colorado Commission on Higher Education to develop a plan for assessing and increasing faculty productivity is described. The central issue was the demand for individual faculty, departmental, and institutional autonomy versus demand by the political system for evidence that the faculty it funds produces adequate…

This document reports the commission's indepth study of the State's financial and administrative relationships with education at all levels. The report consolidates the viewpoints and recommendations of 600 Wisconsin citizens. Their perspectives and proposals recommend an educational system to provide necessary educational opportunities and…

As faculty and other public sector unions become more sophisticated in collective bargaining, they tend to lay a greater variety of demands on the table. This, in turn, forces the employer to ask, Do I really have to bargain about these subjects? As more employers refuse to bargain, more unions charge them with failing to bargain in good faith,…

Thirty papers from a 1980 University of Arizona conference on higher education financing policies and the state government-college relationship are presented. Papers and authors include the following: "Higher Education Financing Policies: A Context" (Ernest Boyer); "The State Board Perspective" (William Arceneaux); "The…