Reducing the frustration of school principals and staffs who are working together to produce the best educational program possible can be achieved by letting each school allocate its resources for both staff and materials. (Author/WM)

The author writes in favor of gearing educational systems to long-term manpower requirements as he responds to Professor Mark Blaug's article ("Prospects" v2, n4, Winter 1973) which advocates cost-benefit analysis as a tool for educational planning. (JH)

Statistics representing attitudes of the world's governments concerning education in terms of public expenditure are compiled and presented in tabular form. Comparisions are made to expenditures in developed and developing countries for competing activities such as public health and military costs. (SM)

Discusses the collection, classification, and evaluation of decisionmaking models in the construction industry. (Author)

Discusses resource reallocation, community control, and tuition vouchers, and how each affects the role of the state, the community, and the family in the education process. (SP)

This article suggests that simulation models would serve as useful tools for developing and using social indicators in the policymaking process. One such model -- STAPOL-- is described, and current and future applications for this type of simulation are discussed. (Author/JH)

Suggests that significant economics could be realized by operating a school system on a four-day week. (DS)

Institutions of higher education encounter greater problems than business in opening up for discussion the inner workings of the system designed to allocate resources and evaluate performance. (Editor/IR)