Discusses several major educational problems and needs that characterize secondary education today and argues that these problems can be solved not by the adoption of certain educational innovations, but rather through application of educational connoisseurship and educational criticism to the ongoing process of educational planning. (JG)

Parents' preferences for educational alternatives were solicited by questionnaire in the Minneapolis public school system. (BRT)

In considering a maximization of the economic contribution of education to the well-being of Papua New Guinea the author argued that no type of educational planning will succeed unless it is based upon the aspiration and expectations of the majority of the population it is intended to serve. (Author/RK)

Emphasizing the necessity of developing a job security system acceptable to employees, the institution, unions, government agencies, and the courts, the author suggests that the place to start is with a review of grievance procedures and of provisions for layoffs of tenured and mid-contract faculty. (JT)

Discusses some of the needs and principles to consider in formulating future policy concerning programs for young children, by describing the increased need for child care, citing examples of innovative programs of the Office of Child Development, and providing a checklist of foundation principles for developing a child-centered strategy. (ED)

Considered the problem of surplus teachers and how to utilize those teachers. (RK)

Discusses three issues that raise serious questions about the behavioral norms and moral obligations of educational planners. From a cost-benefit point of view, excessive planning is reached when overall societal costs exceed overall societal benefits. (Author/WM)

Methods for planning technological innovations in education are expanded and applied to the problem of planning educational services for Botswana. (Author/WM)

Attempts to apply management science techniques to educational planning. Advocates "recurrent education." Asserts that deterministic linear programing formulations of educational planning models could form a sound base from which to develop toward stochastic representation. (Author/WM)

A discussion of school planning--program and facilities--includes some guidelines and self-tests. Emphasis is placed on program strategies as they lead to facilities development, with applications for vocational-technical schools. (BP)

Investigates the contention that the Commonwealth Grants Commission, through the methods and procedures it employed to determine the special grants it recommended for payment to Western Australia, was influential in education policy formation. This resulted in considerable loss of control by the State government. (Author/WM)

The author discusses rapid changes in the fields of numerical control (N/C) and computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) and offers suggestions for vocational educators in meeting the need for trained workers and technically educated professionals and managers. (EA)

The author discusses some new processes in metalcasting (high density and flaskless molding, chemical molding systems, the V-process, and investment casting) and ways to include these processes in career and industrial education curriculums. (EA)

Configuration, strategy, and leadership style in five Brazilian universities are examined. Though research tends to focus on the university as a professional bureaucracy, it is demonstrated that other configurations are also applicable. The link between configuration and strategy making is traced, with insights into how strategies are formed in…

The history of the curriculum of the Marine Corps Command and Staff College, founded in 1920, is presented. It includes not only the progressive stages through which it evolved in almost seven decades, but also some history of the founding of the Marine Corps educational system, the shift in the mission of this service in the 1930s, and other…