Looks at the present uses of programing, planning, and budgeting in school districts. (JF)

An overview of the value, history, work, and possible future of the Schools Council and its effect on promoting decentralization and professionalism in English education. (VW)

Discusses methods of allocating an educational budget. Alternative avenues of expenditure on post secondary education are treated as investment projects and their benefit-cost ratios are compared. (Author)

Suggests that an audiovisual budget be conceived of as a plan" and provides a comprehensive listing of components." (Author/LS)

The Governor of Oregon charges educators and State governments to introduce vital educational innovations and reforms, calling for planning systems to analyze educational problems and prescribe solutions. (LLR)

An analytical decision-making framework is presented and described. Guidelines for strategy formulation and effective implementation of marketing concepts and techniques in educational planning are provided. (SK)

Examines structure of curriculum guides and nature of teacher planning. Offers suggestions, along with considerations related to teacher influence in the classroom; implies specific topics and a method of organizing curriculum guides to make them more useful. (AH)

Presents a field-developed and tested method of comprehensive planning for program/project development. (Author)

Offers 12 ways in which a consultant can be used to attract, answer, and defuse concerns from employees, parents, students, and community members regardless of the reason the consultant was brought in. (Author/IRT)

Outlines reasons why middle schools were developed and presents a program that is suggested to prepare staff members for their new roles if a district adopts middle schools. (IRT)

Illustrates application of hierarchies and eigenvalues to higher education planning. Discusses the roles of scenario construction and hierarchies in planning, then summarizes the eigenvalue procedure and uses it to study impacts in a hierarchy. Finally constructs a composite future for higher education in the United States. (Author/JG)