THE OUTLOOK FOR SCHOOLING: A SURVEY FOR INVESTORS AND SHAREHOLDERS

This paper focuses on the change in the growth rate in school by looking at some of tke-available data and rearranging it in ways that explain the flattened growth rate. The analysis begins with an overview of the market--past, present, and future.. From there, future prospects for the school business are estimated. Declining enrollments, a tight job market for college graduates, the role of schooling in the development of personal and national wealth, cjbernation, and changes in techno-structure are seen to have adverse effects on schools. Positive measures such as an increased emphasis on school improvement based on accountability, market development, restricting access, and charging higher prices to those admitted are cited. Preventive steps to improve the position of the schools are urged.such as the discouraging of certification services outside the formal school systen, of school discount houses, and of movements that propose a de-schooling of society. Broadening the concept of work to include categories presently excluded is seen as a way of returning to schools the function of educating. (Author/AM) 44#44*** Documents acquired by ERIC include many informal unpublished * materials not available from other sources. ERIC makes every effort * * to obtain the best copy available. Nevertheless, items of marginal * * reproducibility are often encountered and this affects the quality * * .of the microfiche and hardcopy reproductions ERIC makes available * * via the ERIC Document Reproduction Service (EDRS). EDRS is not * responsible for, the quality of the original document. Reproductions * * supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original.