This paper describes the development and use of a reporting system that provides ongoing information about the functioning of a child welfare agency. The format, by relating productivity to operating costs, provides a realistic and helpful picture of performance and resource allocation. (CS)

Applies output budgeting techniques to the "production" of graduates at a British University. The cost per student graduated in 18 different disciplines is first divided among (1) capital and maintenance costs, (2) teaching costs, and (3) administrative and general expenditures. The potential cost savings from more efficient utilization…

Maintains that opportunities for equal education are inextricably related to other societal factors such as health, welfare, employment, and housing; suggests that equitable distribution of society's finite resources, diversification of educational programs and systems, desegregation, and a redefinition of the Federal government's role in…

Resource optimization in building design is based on the total system over its expected useful life. Alternative environmental systems can be evaluated in terms of resource costs and goal effectiveness. (Author/MF)

An interesting perspective is offered on how one institution dealt with its fiscal problems and instituted new approaches to budgeting. (Author/JN)

An excerpt from Forward Plan for Career Education: Research and Development,'' prepared by the Career Education Development Task Force, National Institute of Education, Department of Health, Education and Welfare, April 1973. (Author/JM)

Seven qualitative factors discussed as key possibilities for those crucial variables that shape and determine a school's effectiveness. The factors are (1) objectives, (2) impact of arrangement of resources and activities in learning outcomes, (3) impact of expectations on learning outcomes, (4) impact of interaction patterns on learning outcomes,…

Examines the findings of the reanalyses and argues that spending more money on schools is not futile. Also indicates where additional or redistributed resources for schools should be spent. (JF)

Analyzes the method of financial support provided by the state for educational opportunity at all levels. (Author)

Article is an outgrowth of two conference presentations by the author at the Regional Seminar on Financing and Cost of Education in Central America and Panama, Guatemala City, Guatemala, September 6-11, 1971. (RJ)

Keynote speech by the Vice-President, University of Saskatchewan, at the first annual meeting of the Saskatchewan Educational Research Association. (MB)

Examines the distribution formula for ESEA Title I funds, focusing on target population, target expenditure level, and grant specification. (JF)