Based on educational administration textbooks and on thesauri and dictionaries published by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the International Bureau of Education (IBE), and other institutions, this document presents a trilingual (English, French, and Spanish) glossary of approximately 2,500 terms or…

Planning traditionally employs a rational decision model that leaves the planner poorly equipped to deal with constraints of organizational process and governmental politics. To be more effective, the planner must now begin in depth to analyze the procedures related to organizational processes and political bargaining. (Author)

The Campus Level Planning Model provides seven basic steps for a planning, programming, budgeting, and evaluation system at the school level. (Author/IRT)

Article discussed the nature and future of educational futurology and took a brief glance into the history of the idea of futurism (or futuristics) in general, and in education in particular. (Author/RK)

Five major areas of activity within the planning function were described along with two minor areas. Planning tasks and competencies, the relationship of planning to other administrative units, the organization of the planning unit, and the interrelationships of the planning unit were discussed. (Author/RK)

Article presented two conceptual frameworks for analyzing the instructional episode. First, the curricular model and then a personality model were analyzed as part of an effort to demonstrate the value of even limited structures in analyzing the complexities of the teaching-learning process. (Author/RK)

Data bases employed in projecting public school enrollment are examined and elements of the computer programs used to automate the projection technique are provided. Degree of accuracy found in the techniques described are indicated. These techniques can be used in a setting in which resources are limited to a staff of one. Address: DUALabs, 1601…

Author considered the question of school size and its effect upon the individual learner or teacher. (Author/RK)

Article outlined the condition of New Jersey's budget with its problems, recent history and future prospects. (RK)

Reports the results of a survey of teacher education institutions affiliated with the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education to determine the extent to which each was involved in competency-based programs. (Author/IRT)

This paper traces the impacts of technology on education. The point is made that at present a management syndrome pervades education planning at all levels. After a review of the current literature, the paper finds that industry-style efficiency may be more costly than beneficial to education. (Editor/PG)

More people are involved in the process than ever before, but a few key actors, center stage, must still sift through the mass of evidence and make the final decision. (Editor)

For the past three years, Newport Harbor High School (N.H.H.S.) has been engaged in Organization Development efforts. This article attempts to give some sense of that endeavor. (Author)

What hopefully will be clarified in this article will be the relationship of organizational development to planned change, and more particularly, futures. (Author)

Article considered an outline of the problem of providing a school curriculum that focuses on productive labor, illustrating the argument primarily with data from Kenya. (Author/RK)