This report provides information on the degrees and certificate programs offered in Oregon's postsecondary institutions of education for the 1973-74 academic school year. Degrees and certificate programs are listed as given in the institutions' catalogs. An inventory of programs for each postsecondary institution is provided in appendixes, which…

This monograph is intended for use by State education agencies (SEA's) and urban school systems as a guide to facilitate SEA/Urban school system efforts to identify urban school system needs; and to develop and to describe the roles of the SEA in assisting these systems to plan and effect improvements in education. The report also develops an…

In Oregon, schools licensed by the Department of Education serve a broad base of occupational training needs and are governed by broadly stated and permissive legislation. It is the loose construction of statutes that gives the Department's Advisory Committee its purpose. The Committee and the Department jointly set standards of operation for the…

This speech discusses means by which local control could be presented under a system of State financing of education. The author points out some of the weaknesses of local control and then discusses its strength. For example, the author argues that under local control too much energy goes into financial rather than into educational concerns. He…

A rationale and series of steps are provided for use by local school districts in Iowa in developing a teacher evaluation program. The four basic questions to be asked by teacher evaluation program planners are: (1) What shall be our criteria of desired teacher performance? (2) How high shall our standards be? (3) How do we want to measure and…

This volume contains the recommendations made to the Minnesota legislature by the Advisory Council on Fluctuating School Enrollments. Volume II serves as an appendix to this first volume and contains the data and information on which these recommendations were based. Volume I's recommendations center around the effects of fluctuating enrollments…

Discusses the "Ingraham v. Wright" Supreme Court action, its meaning for students and teachers, and what the state's reaction to the case is. (RK)

Analysis of the distribution of authority between state and local levels of schooling shows that local battles over change will accomplish, at the very best, local or marginal gains. Significant change comes at the state and federal levels. (Author/IRT)

Ontario's curriculum development centralization is examined in respect to (1) definition and implementation, (2) narrowed curricular possibilities, (3) constraining aspects of standardized evaluation, and (4) narrowed teacher professionalism. (MB)

Reports findings of a 12-school district study examining differences in local perceptions about influences on their systems: Federal policies; State legislation; demographic trends; the local community; central offices. Presents case studies of three districts and recommendations for strengthening local capacity and sense of priorities. (KH)

Examines the governing structures of state and local school systems as reported for 1880. Three distinctive models of governance are identified for the Northeast, the South, and the Midwest in the method of appointment or election of school officers at the state and local levels. (Author/BJD)

This article takes a philosophical look at judicial concepts of fiscal equality as they apply to education. Ideas discussed include (1) the concept of basic education and how equal education applies; (2) differences in requirements of equality; and (3) educational outcomes used to judge equality. Comments by Stephen Arons are included. (DF)

The value of local control of school systems is discussed. Local control is defined, and its connection with justice explored. Implications for school finance based on personal and participatory liberty rules for distributing costs are given. Robert K. Winpelberg offers comments on this article. (DF)

Using political economy as a framework, explores reasons for enormous variability across states in their influence over educational systems. Assesses consequences and significance of divergence among the states, and concludes that increased state influence in education requires more rather than less federal intervention. (CMG)

Recent attention to public education at the state and local level indicates that improvements in educational funding may be addressed. A variety of political forces and economic and demographic factors that influence school finance policies are explored. (DF)