A look at television production miracles on a budget of $6000 and a staff of one and two-thirds. (Author)

This bulletin is a reprint of Part 3 of the College of Education, University of Georgia's proposal to the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Office of Education (USOE) to undertake a feasibility study of the Georgia educational model (Johnson, 1969). It is a discussion of the theoretical considerations underlying procedures which…

Describes projects of the Maryland Committee for the Day Care of Children aimed at cutting day care costs: a recycling center for discarded industrial materials that can be put to educational uses, and workshops for teachers and volunteers in preschool and day care programs. (ED)

This article discusses both the cost of computer assisted instruction and the circumstances under which a school system should consider installing such equipment. (AK)

Can spiraling special education costs explain why educational achievement remained stagnant over the past three decades while real education spending more than doubled? Policy makers, education researchers, and school district officials often make this claim. Special education students--goes the argument--are draining resources away from regular…

Cost studies are program evaluations that judge program worth by relating program costs to program benefits. There are three sets of strategies: cost-benefit, cost-effectiveness, and cost-utility analysis, although the last appears infrequently. The authors searched relevant databases to identify 103 cost studies in education and then reduced the…

The Committee on Education and Labor strongly recommends the adoption of H. R. 2148, a bill that, with two major additions, would basically reenact Project Follow Through for an additional year as it is currently authorized under the Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1981. The two additions would provide for review and evaluation of what has been…

Methods of assessing the actual and potential efficiency of alternative instructional strategies, including those which depend heavily upon mechanical and electronic instructional aids, are explored in this essay. The paper also compares the problem of evaluating educational outcomes with that of evaluating government outputs in general, and…

The operational costs of a large non-profit midwestern university film library are reviewed. (Author/STS)

Describes the successful instructional television program at Biloxi (Mississippi) High School and the support the program receives from the state educational television system. (IRT)

Substitution of a modified gym uniform for the traditional judogi effectively lowers the cost of school judo programs. (LH)