With the growth of expenditure on education increasing more rapidly than available local tax resources, school will have to account for both input and output. This article discusses the pressures which arise if school is policy is excluded from public scrutiny and approval, which results in wasteful programs. (Author/JB)

Summarizes the changes that have developed in secondary school administration and how education has benefited from that progress. (RK)

Offers seven suggestions to elementary principals that might make the teacher-administrator evaluation a positive force for school improvement. (Author/EA)

Reports an exploratory study which attempted to examine one facet of an educational accountability model, a model that conceptualizes the school as a social system, in contrast to a product management model which relates accountability to a product outcome. (JM)

A recent study of former male graduates of selected Idaho high schools during the period 1962-1970 was an attempt to identify what happens to Idaho agricultural education graduates. (Author)

School Boards of the future will have to be politically controlled, members will have monetary compensation, and boards will represent an approximate 15,000 to 20,000 students rather than the traditional 1,000 to 3,500. (Author/MB)

A coordinator from a publishing firm, a state director of language arts, a specialist in language arts, a school superintendent, and two executives from educational development companies give their opinions on the practice of schools contracting with private companies to teach remedial reading. (VJ)

Offers an analysis of the impact of Federal intervention and major criticisms of the notion of programistic aid as opposed to general aid. (Author)

Presents information about the legal role and powers of the grand jury. Alerts social workers to the possible shift from being an informational witness to being the focus of inquiry. Guidelines for grand jury testimony are offered, and the legal rights of social workers are reviewed. (JAC)

The programs of sponsored experiential learning can improve their bargaining position within the institution by practicing and demonstrating cost-effective forms of operation. Effective sponsored experiential learning programs can actually increase the cost-effectiveness of the host institution. (MLW)

Considers five major interests at stake in higher education: social justice, competence, academic freedom, autonomy/accountability, and decentralization/centralization. Suggests that the implementation of conflicting interests is less a matter of the relation between the state and higher education than of relations between the academic profession…

Questions of college performance in the United States are inevitably answered in terms of numbers rather than performance. A Tennessee policy links two percent of state funding to outcomes rather than size. The policy has major implications for funding and performance in colleges and other service-oriented institutions. (Author/MLW)