Students who don't require financial aid but who qualify on the basis of academic merit have been receiving more of the scholarship money. And students who have too much money, inherited fortunes, have found some ways to be productive while contributing to social change in the community. (RK)

The seven chapters of Listening and Learning 2004 contain indicators that describe different aspects of life in the 26 Knight communities. Chapter 1 provides the context for Knight Foundation program work in these communities by highlighting some of the most important demographic, economic and social characteristics that place each community in…

Article discusses the necessity for upgrading the quality of teacher preparation. (MM)

the Common Fund is a nonprofit corporation formed to enable colleges, universities, and independent schools to join together in obtaining professional management of their endowments and other long-term investment funds. (Author)

Advice for the educator planning sabbaticals in other lands and cultures. (Author)

Paper presented at the Summer Meeting of the Alexander Graham Bell Association (Philadelphia, June 24-27, 1970) in which the author reviews the research supported by The Deafness Research Foundation. (RD)

The superintendent of schools in Edina, Minnesota, describes the nonprofit foundation that the schools and the city have formed to raise funds for school and city projects. (IRT)

Reviews the role of foundations in public education over the past 30 years, concentrating on 4 broad areas: research, technology and things, people, and curriculum and school improvement. Foundations now see that a relationship exists between education and other services for children and that a holistic approach to school improvement is needed.…

The rationale of power equalization approaches are explored, and the advantages, shortcomings, and details of operation are examined. A power equalization bill proposed by the Ohio Legislature is analyzed in terms of projected costs, impact on educational programs, and to bring out problems of grafting power equalization programs onto existing…

The John and Mary R. Markle Foundation Annual Report for 1976/77 is divided into three sections--the president's essay, a review of funded programs, and the treasurer's report. In "Broadcasting and Political Equality," Lloyd N. Morrisett, foundation president, presents a review of mass media coverage given presidential campaigns from newspaper…