Conceptually, performance-based education shows promise of preserving quality, equal opportunity, and efficiency given the mandate for better utilization of resources in light of predicted declines in student populations and revenues. Requirements to implement a performance-based system and barriers that may impede its adoption or success are…

Seeks to identify trends in reading education, including preservice, in-service, and tertiary education. Discusses the Australian Reading Association's policy statement on teacher education. (FL)

Institutional advancement is a management process that requires coordination, not only of how resources are acquired but also how they are allocated, utilized, evaluated, and accounted for. The president cannot tolerate poor performance by any member of the development team. (MSE)

Discusses the need for educators to respond positively to changing enrollments and financial conditions by demonstrating fiscal responsibility, planning and developing relevant academic programs, and understanding the types of students being served. Attitudinal and managerial factors in the achievement of these goals are explored. (JP)

The decade of the 1970s saw the evolution of a regulatory society and a growth in the degree of external oversight of higher education by elected officials. Achieving balanced governance in the 1980s centers around a leadership role at the state higher education coordinating level. (MLW)

An ecological model of accountability is presented as an alternative to the traditional "means-ends" approach. The essential differences between the two models in the use of goals are discussed and implications are offered. (JMF)

A school and community must state their goals for students and then, avoiding the use of commerical tests, design a means of evaluation to determine if those goals have been met. (Author/JM)

The development of academic tenure in American higher education is reviewed, based on a study by the College and University Personnel Association. The role of academic tenure as a general concept in the development of the professoriate and in the shaping of major portions of educational policy and practice is explored. (MLW)

Financial pressures may force providers of inservice courses for teachers to evaluate their work. Systematic evaluation demands response to three levels of challenge: the challenge of professional relevance implicit in new styles; the conceptual and organizational challenge of course evaluation; and the challenge of the structure of providing…

The article is an analysis of recent readings on the accountability of classroom teachers. It characterizes, defines, and explains several types of accountability and notes a trend toward compromise within the accountability movement in the areas of blending human goals and behavioral science and redefining the teaching-learning act. (SB)

Drawing on a national survey by Barak and Berdahl, this article discusses the trend in many states toward official reviews of doctoral programs. The rationale behind these academic reviews, procedures used, results, and the benefits and problems of review programs are discussed. (SJL)

A teacher-researcher model that takes into account the constraints in the teaching environment is described. Four characteristics of teaching/learning are: (1) need for continual examination; (2) learning activities as compromises in face of influences and constraints; (3) learning as interactional activity; and (4) public accountability of…

Institutional administrators and research specialists must help improve and implement accountability measures if institutions are to retain academic autonomy. Current trends point to increased pressure for public accountability of higher education in the future. (MLW)

The author cites several definitions of "accountability" in education, looks at some state accountability legislation and lawsuits, and considers the meaning of and obstacles to educational accountability. Discussing such topics as who is accountable for success and who controls the curriculum, he concludes that legislating accountability in…

The relationship between the federal government and higher education is examined with focus on federal aid and especially federal regulations. Justifications for the federal regulatory role and suggestions for improving the relationship by both higher education and the government are offered. (JMD)