This paper presents some issues that must be addressed before "productivity" can be measured. State and local education agencies should be concerned with measuring the impact of their actions rather than with productivity per se. Impact would be defined as the ratio of the quantity of output to the quantity of need. It is recognized that…

The major purpose of the Title V program, Designing Education for the Future, is to assist educators and lay citizens in the eight participating States in devising a program of educational improvement. This report by the project director presents information on educational changes covered by the program and builds a rationale for effecting these…