The text of an address to the National Policy Conference on Education for Blacks, held in Arlington, Virginia, March 29-April 1, 1972. (JM)

Outlines the principles that have evolved in recent years for the equitable distribution of intergovernmental funds and explains some of the problems to be encountered by the Federal government in effectively incorporating these principles in their distribution of educational aid. (Author/JM)

Simulation is used to study the effects of varying service capacity in a medical clinic. The relationship between service capacity and student waiting time was used to construct a decision table with alternatives and cost effects that can be used to help the decisionmaker select the optimum number of service personnel. (Author/DN)

A unique analysis that offers the following conclusions: (1) resource differences among cohort groups of schools are only mildly compensatory; (2) schools with the smallest proportion of disadvantaged pupils receive more dollars per pupil than do schools with higher disadvantagement (although the reverse is true when teachers per pupil is used as…

The boom is over, and administrators must now carefully invest the resources rationed to them, mapping out a general strategy for the future. (Editor)

In your expanding program of agribusiness and natural resource occupations, can you afford to ignore this wealth of teaching tools that will make learning more realistic to your students? (Editor)

Presented at the 66th Annual Convention of the National Catholic Educational Association, Detroit, Michigan, April 7-10, 1969.

Speech given before the annual meeting of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (22nd, Chicago, Ill., Feb. 1969)

This investigation of the effects that budget cuts have had on elementary school library media programs in Arizona examines the impact of funding reductions on library media program development, staff morale, and administrative support. One reference is provided. (EJS)

This essay discussing the purchasing power of the university library's acquisitions budget insists that intelligent cooperation and coordination between institutions will ensure that libraries continue to be repositories of creative thought and wisdom, though conceding that special collections may have to be pooled and branch services curtailed.…

The recent rapid growth of Saudi higher education and the need for faculty are examined, with reference to government publications and international statistics. The possibility of having an adequate Saudi faculty and of using Arabic as the standard language of instruction are discussed. (MSE)

As resources for education dwindle, deans of education must provide leadership through: (1) long-range planning; (2) establishing priorities; (3) efficient decision making; and (4) improving the image of teacher education. Ways to improve collection of data on students and their needs and to establish program assessment criteria are discussed. (PP)

College administrators in small and specialized colleges with a narrower margin for financial planning need a management process that continually renews the institution's sense of direction while ensuring that plans are matched to available resources. (MSE)

A survey identified several factors and trends in staff utilization, including limited institutional authority in staff assignment, limited use of formula staffing, less efficiency in nonmetropolitan colleges, use of part-time staff in direct proportion to school size, and staff/student ratio inversely related to school size. (MSE)

Analyzes the Mexican case through four hypotheses: decision makers are not rational; decisions are determined by economic rationality; policies reproduce ideology and/or culture; and policies and plans maintain decision makers' power. Concludes Mexican schools are not consciously organized to reproduce the dominant ideology, but they contribute to…