The trend toward corporate political support of higher education appears to be spreading. After years of corporate and business financial support to higher education, now groups in Kentucky, Washington, Utah, West Virginia and other states are making political contributions to higher education as well. (MLW)

The shifting political milieu which surrounded and conditioned all of Illinois' educational endeavors in the half century after 1870 is discussed. Studies of those elements of society which have influenced the development of schools have often neglected the political milieu that affects educational policy-making at the state level. The political…

Designed for use by students, policy-makers, educational administrators, social scientists, and lay citizens, this book analyzes three basic educational issues: the economics of education, the politics of educational finance, and the "new political economy" of education, which employs economic methods to study those governmental institutions…