Article discusses the Serrano v. Priest case and feels that unequal funding of school districts can not be justified by appeal to the unequal wealth of the communities in which they are located. (Author/GB)

Presents a basis for allocating resources between the goals of higher education: instruction, organized research and public service using cost-utility analysis. (PG)

An allocation model is proposed for instructional systems which have instructional programs that can be structured in terms of behavioral objectives, instructional activities, and required achievement levels. The model assumes that the relevant characteristics of students and teachers are known and that the instructional resources needed for an…

A survey of literature regarding production functions or the technical relationships between the inputs and outputs of education. The survey includes the methodology for establishing production functions, the problems associated with establishing such functions, and the application of production functions in educational planning at macro and micro…

Article discusses how the extension educational specialist can aid school districts in developing successful research and development and in-service education programs. (Author/MM)

Unlike American proposals for welfare reform which are concerned primarily with reducing costs by altering work behavior among present recipients of public assistance, British attempts to devise an income transfer system are based on the rationale that scarce resources should be concentrated upon those in the greatest need. (Editor)

Unit cost analysis provides a rationale for distributing capital costs of physical facilities. (Editor)

Combines elements of the problem solving approach inherent in methods of applied economics and operations research and the structural-functional analysis common in social science modeling to develop an approach for economic planning and resource allocation for schools and other public sector organizations. (Author)

Military training programs involve some of the most advanced and sophisticated techniques. Many can be meshed with those of the civilian education community at significant savings of d

Examines some of the basic principles that should be observed and techniques that can be used to handle inadequate library budgets. Topics discussed include the need to know what is being done, categorizing activities and relating them one to another, and evaluating the impact of change. (EJS)

A method for analyzing expenditures and revenue, and a matrix for use in decision making about program choice and more productive use of resources, is outlined. Institutional integrity (internal and external cohesion) is preferred to emphasis on competition. (MSE)

Describes the implementation and evaluation of a program rewarding good teaching in the Catalina Foothills School District in Tucson (Arizona). Based on motivation-hygiene theory, which claims that money is not a motivator, the program funds teacher attendance at conferences and purchases of instructional equipment rather than teacher pay…