A discussion of how project management techniques may be employed by educators to improve reading instruction. (HB)

A controversial proposal for releasing teachers to become free and responsible...autonomous and accountable.'' (Editor)

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,…

Discusses steps vocational educators must take to avoid intrusion of industry-government performance contracting. (SB)

A role oriented accountability model forms the framework for evaluation and feedback in curriculum change. (Author)

The central theme of this paper is that countries, at all levels of development, must engage in systematic educational planning leading to the continuing determination and fulfillment of priorities. (Author)

Discusses a program started in Duluth, Minnesota, in which parents have the option of selecting the kind of education they want for their children and in which both parents and students contract for achieving a desired educational step in a specified period of time. (DN)

Questions class rank as a significant indicator of academic success. (DS)

Author gives some indications that PPBS can be a useful tool in promoting efficiency and accountability. (Author)

Argues that, if progress is to be made, educators must develop processes by which they redefine their own professional goals, identify their objectives, proceed toward them, and put into operation an evaluation system that is strongly formative in its effect. (Author/JN)

Discusses the implementation of Planning-Programming-Budgeting Systems in the educational system with an analysis of six objections to the innovation. (RK)