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Zymelman, Manuel Financing and Efficiency in Education: Reference for Administration and Policymaking. Agency for International Development (Dept. of State), Washington, D.C. 73

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MF-$0.83 HC-$16.73 Plus Postage Cost Effectiveness; Delivery Systems; *Educational Finance; *Efficiency; Elementary Secondary Education; Expenditures; *Financial Policy; Financial Support; Higher Education; *Models; National Programs; *Resource Allocations

ABSTRACT This book examines the advantages and disadvantages

cf various methods of financing education and discusses the basic issues related to increasing efficiency in education. Section 1 offers a short history of educational finance and discusses many of the traditional approaches to financing education. Section 2 presents methods for distributing funds to different levels of formal education and to various types of nonformal education. Section 3 describes different arrangements for raising educational funds and controlling their use. Section 4 examines different methods for forecasting educational resources and describes the Index of Educational Funding, a model for measuring national effort in educational spending. Section 5 discusses concepts of efficiency in education and develops a general approach for improving efficiency through intervention in the educational system. Section 6 deals with ways of increasing overall efficiency and decision-making in national educational systems. Section 7 presents ways of increasing educational effiCiency, with emphasis on educational contracting. It also describes the Index of Educational Expenditures, a model for comparing different nations' educational spending. (AuthorM)

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MANUEL ZYMELMAN

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This book was produced as part of a project sponsored and funded under a contract with theAgency for International Development. The views expressed herein are, however, those of the author and are not necessarily those of the Agency. All rights reserved.

Composed and printed at The Nimrod Press, Boston, 1973

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT

A work covering so many varied topics in the financing and efficiency of education mu,st necessarily rely on the assistance of many people. Foremost, I acknowledge with thanks the help of my three research assistants: Dr. Jose Dominguez, who developed the idea of a Student Loan Development Bank; Mrs. Elaine Gould; and Mrs. Adele Neuringer. They collaborated

tiringly in all phases of this project.

* I wish to thank Dr. Robert McMeeckin for his assistance in the formution of the chapters on planning, data for decision-making, and admin,tration; Dr. John Simmons for his assistance in the formulation of-the hapter on the economic valuation of educational outputs; Professor Donald M. Levine for his assistance in the formulation of the chapter on PPBS; Professor John Anderson for his assistance in the formulation of the chapter on self-help in education; and Mrs. Jeanne Henn for her assistance in the formulation of the chapter on distribution of funds.

My thanks to Professors John Anderson, Roy Bahl, Charles Benson, Curley Bowen, Andre Daniere, Russell Davis, Werner Hirsh, Donald M. Levine, Selma Mushkin, Richard Speagle, and John Vaizey for specially preparing research papers that deal with various topics related to this book.

I am grateful to the members of the Task Force in Educational Finance and Measurement of the Agency for International Development, and to all

the participants of the International Conferences on the Financing of Education held in Cartagena and Malta in 1973 for their many basic and relevant comments on early drafts of this book.

Lastly, I am especially grateful to Mrs. Helene Tuchman for her efficiency in compiling the index; to Dr. Martin Robbins who worked closely with me in editing the manuscript and providing invaluable criticism; and to Miss Dolores Tirnbas for her indispensable critical editing of the final manuscript in close collaboration with me and for supervising the book through all stages of publication.

Although help, information, and advice were received from these and many other sources, responsibility for this book rests solely with the author.

Manuel Zymelman Cambridge June, 1973

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