This source book provides some authoritative statements, striking phrases, relevant statistics, and collections of figures on educational topics for people preparing speeches or articles. The topics examined include citizen and school responsibility for the future of education; sources and inadequacies of school financial support; cooperative community, student, and teacher planning of curriculum; and teacher accountability. Also included are the results of a Teacher Opinion Poll conducted in 1973 studying teacher reactions to basic school programs, student violence, and class size. A final section briefly describes educational research on the topics of examination hysteria, sex role uncertainty, behavior modification, commitment to environmental improvement, classroom recitation, student attitudes, parents and television watching, the integration of retarded children in regular classes, college enrollment, early schooling in Russia, school survival, sex role typing, and teacher image. (Author/DE)