This proposal for a new, innovative community college of the future was prepared in conjunction with the Task Force on Education for the Governor's Conference on Hawaii in the Year 2000. Topics covered are the student body, curriculum and learning strategies, programs, student advising, student activities, faculty, college governance, community…

A model is presented and interpreted by which college and university boards of trustees periodically assess and evaluate key academic administrators, including presidents, vice presidents, and deans. Evaluation is defined as a process of review to assess the performance of academic administrators and to make a value judgment concerning this…

Notes that if the school really belongs to the community, then administrators have no more right to put a kid out of his school than to put their children out of the house. Discusses the implications of this ideology. (Author/AM)

The author reviews predictions for personnel in higher education, reviews the state of the art and charts a course for the work to be done. (Editor)

Examines two traditional approaches to the measurement of library service--the gathering of circulation and reference statistics--and relates them in a statistical model in an attempt to define real standards against which a library's activity can be compared. Graphs comparing reference and circulation statistics are included. (Author/JD)

Basic definitions, conceptual clarity, and analyses of the organizational and social implications of various competency-based education approaches are badly needed. (Author/EB)

This article examines the practice of academic tracking--how it operates and how it is perceived in a school. An attempt is made to detail how the stigma generated by low track placement is managed by students. (Author/EB)

The article discusses the issue of public school responsibility for the governance of early childhood education intervention programs for handicapped children. (Author/DLS)

Issues involved in measuring the achievement of institutional goals are outlined. Institutional survival, if not well-being, is shown to depend on symmetry between intent and delivery. The latter depends at least partially upon demonstrated progress toward the achievement of goals and community expectations. (Author/LBH)

Reviews the politics of school finance reform during the early- and mid-seventies, and suggests possible future developments in the years ahead. (PKP)

One would not buy an automobile, a television set, or a gallon of paint without expecting some type of guarantee in return. Public school systems have a similar right to expect a certain level of performance from the graduates they hire from teacher-training institutions. Describes the teacher warranty program, its objectives and prerequisites to…

In Great Britain, apprenticeship is regarded as the traditional means of entry into skilled occupations. Covers some apprenticeship characteristics, arguments for and against apprenticeships, efforts made by Industrial Training Boards to improve the quality of apprentice training, and training criteria that must be met for government funding of…

Describes measures designed to minimize errors in the summarization and reporting of financial and operating data as well as to minimize the opportunities for misuse of a school system's assets. (Author)

Presents comments by a school board member regarding the obligation of educators to be accountable to parents for the quality of education their children receive. Concludes that equality of opportunity should not rest with the tax-raising ability of local school districts. (DB)

This paper examines the conditions under which it is appropriate to use a productivity framework for evaluating education and human service programs. It also discusses three specific limitations on the applicability of productivity analyses. (Author/AM)