School finance issues are of paramount concern to all levels of the education system of the Southwestern Region of the United States. As expectations rise for students and teachers to perform at higher levels and for schools to guarantee the success of all students, the question of how best to support this reform through fiscal measures becomes…

Article deals with a method developed for generating or computing cost-benefits and cost-effectiveness data. (Author)

Focusing upon state financing of education, several examples of no-wealth discrimination criteria are examined, suggesting that only two directions of true reform are available to states: to equalize expenditures per unit of need among a state's school districts or to equalize economic capacities per unit of need among districts. (Author/JM)

Describes the contribution of economics to the process of educational policy formation and to the educational policymakers. (Author/DN)

The extent to which resources for goal attainment in Papago communities are consistent with certain abstract goals of community development is evaluated. (NQ)

Discusses the use of the PPBS, a resource allocations management system, at the University of California. (HS)

A view contrary to the implication that resource levels are to be largely taken as givens. Aruges that the level of resources made available may be increased by the insightful administrator. (Author)

Common sense and operational research can lead to significant savings in the use of capital resources. (HS)

PPBS, an important and useful decision tool, is deficient in political processes because it cannot account for power and value allocations. (RA)

Reports a training session on the role of media in individualized instruction. (Author/MF)

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

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