Described are two programs that used innovative ideas to raise funds for implementing new instructional technology. Setting up a nonprofit, school-based foundation is discussed as a method that can help provide relief for funding problems. (CW)

Discusses the use of technology as a catalyst for school reform. Four possible scenarios for the future of schools are presented, and suggestions to groups who are able to influence the success of the school reform movement are offered, including school boards, administrators, teachers, federal and state governments, universities, and foundations.…

Explores the role of Chicago's (Illinois) philanthropic foundations in the development, passage, and early implementation of the Chicago School Reform Act of 1988. Although foundations played a small role in passage of the act, they became vital to its implementation. Proposes principles for foundations involved in education reform policy. (SLD)

While foundation support for higher education is expected to remain strong, fundamental changes in giving strategies are influencing which institutions and program types are funded. Trends include increased attention to precollegiate education, less direct support to historically black institutions and more to initiatives supporting cultural…

This book provides central-office administrators with detailed processes of evaluation and assessment designed to improve upon the deficiencies in the current decentralized grants system. It is designed to help the administrator discern what district support functions are necessary to ensure that legal, ethical, and financial grant requirements…

This study was conducted to identify, classify, and analyze the range of precollegiate teacher recruitment programs now in operation across the nation and to make recommendations to the DeWitt Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund on potential grantmaking opportunities. Information on programs; the role played by foundations; and activities of Federal,…

The Georgia Centers for Community Education hosted the multi-state rural and small school conference because of the many educational hardships encountered in many rural and small southern schools. Speakers representing the University of North Carolina, North Carolina State University, Valdosta State College, the University of Missouri, the…

Guidelines for proposal writers who are seeking foundation or corporate support for colleges or schools cover: conducting effective research; deciding on the contents and its organization; designing a budget that reflects what the project will cost, how the costs will be covered, and how much is being requested; deciding on the format, writing…

Background information to help educators teach about nuclear disarmament is presented. There are six sections. The first section, "Nuclear Arms Education: Avoiding the Final Catastrophe," discusses the national priority of preparing for war, militarism as a value, and the mushroom cloud and spaceship earth as symbols of a global age. The second…

The presence of whites at traditionally black public colleges and universities (TBPCUs) is examined for six periods: the pre-Civil War period, 1837-1859; the period of the educational missionary, 1860-1885; the period of reaction to white control, 1886-1916; the decade of the great philanthropists, 1917-1927; the era of the Bureau of Education,…

The nature and level of activity among U.S. private sector groups seeking to expand educational opportunities for black South Africans is examined. The Information Exchange of the Institute of International Education (South African Programs) did research on such categories of organizations as foundations, church groups, educational institutions,…

This collection of articles examines the influences of the state and federal government, the American Association of Community and Junior Colleges (AACJC), universities, accrediting agencies, and other external forces on the community college curriculum. Articles which deal with the role of the government in curriculum development include: "An…

Activities conducted during the calendar year 1985 by the Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families focused on (1) Alcohol Abuse and Its Implications for Families; (2) Families with Disabled Children: Issues for the 80s; (3) Tax Policy: What Do Families Need? (4) Prevention of Alcohol Abuse in American Families; (5) Emerging Trends in…

The problems facing low-income families headed by women and some current and planned Ford Foundation responses are discussed in this paper. The first section presents a general overview of the problem, with special focus on nonpayment of child support and teenage pregnancy. The debate over the Federal welfare program and other attempts to use…

The validity of the basic assumptions underlying student grant programs is examined; namely, whether student aid increases access to postsecondary education for low income groups, whether student aid promotes student choice, and whether financing higher education through students greatly aids private institutions. The major conclusions of the…