Private schools can "...provide much more attractive retirement benefits for the same cost by funding retirement plans outside Social Security. (Author)

Discusses shortcomings in measuring results, training methods, and management interest in management and supervisory training and suggests how to make training more effective. Training Technology is a quarterly supplement to Educational Technology Magazine. (GR)

This paper reports on the economic returns to investment in education in a large number of countries and attempts to trace patterns that might exist between the returns to education and other socio-economic characteristics of the countries involved. (Author/RY)

Teacher characteristics were compared to student achievement and combined with data on recruitment costs for new teachers. Recruiting and retaining teachers with high verbal scores as found to be 5 to 10 times as effective per dollar spent as obtaining teachers with more experience. (BC)

The administrator has four options in choosing the most practical method of administrative, instructional and research computer usage. (Editor)

Boston University's film library offered rental of its 16mm films to a local school district and found it more advantageous financially than outright purchase. (Author)