Advocates of teaching black history are primarily interested in instilling racial pride and identification in Negroes, whereas those who wish to teach Negro history are concerned with promoting interracial harmony. (CK)

Facing declining enrollment, higher education must try to find a new clientele while resisting the temptation to cater to the distorted set of national priorities currently being sold the American public by well-organized and economically powerful but short-sighted special interest groups. (Author/PGD)

Discusses a new study which found that even as the number of high school graduates fell over the past 20 years, competition for college applicants increased. (EV)

A theoretical model of educational demand is provided and the model is tested employing both time series and cross-sectional data. Cross-sectional findings employing the Zellner SUR technique are presented. Policy implications are offered. (Author/MLW)

Proposes a second, noncommodified sector in which citizens receive wages for socially essential activities. Suggests that those completing two years in the second sector would acquire vouchers for vocational training and further education. (SK)

Responses from 923 of 3,203 International Technology Education Association members showed the majority had access to computers and the Internet; most were interested in online continuing education; topics included technology teaching activities, new technologies, and teaching using the Internet; and misconceptions about online courses and where to…

Strategic interactions of subsidies and tuitions in public higher education are described in a differentiated-product setting where legislatures first determine subsidies and then governing boards of universities set tuition. When revenue of the university is important relative to students' welfare in legislative preferences, commitment to the…

Households pay a premium to live in houses assigned to high quality public schools, and the housing market yields information about the demand for public school quality. The current study estimates a two-stage house price hedonic emphasizing the role that private schools play in the willingness to pay for public school quality. The elasticity of…

One of the conundrums of free primary education (FPE) policy in several countries in Sub-Saharan Africa is the "mushrooming" of fee-paying private schools. Several researchers have become interested in studying this phenomenon and have raised the question--does free primary education meet the needs of the poor? Emerging voices among this…

In this article, the author sets out something of the vision in the Government consultation paper, "Delivering World Class Skills in a Demand-led System," and looks at how this is likely to play out for adult learners. The contention of Leitch is that there is a supply-led system in education and training. The Government has planned…

The miscellany of functions under the community college umbrella might be better performed by new organizations with different names. (Editor)

As the State University of New York has become more complex in response to the educational needs of its constituency, it has developed curricular offerings of a widely expanded scope and variety. This document has as its purpose to show enrollment in academic programs at each of the campuses for fall 1968 through fall 1971. The report is in two…

Enrollment projections are vital to the planning of any educational system where capacity and growth are important elements. As a portion of a study of engineering education in Ontario, this document presents enrollment projections up to academic year 1980-81, that size and number of engineering schools to be needed might be established. Tables…

Discusses a study that documents research aimed at finding information of use in directing the demand of sixth formers for courses in higher education. (JOW)

A look at the pinch caused by an increasing demand for services and decreasing financial resources, with emphasis on the experience of West Valley College in Saratoga, California. (DC)