Trends toward zero population growth, more elderly drawing social security, racial polarization, changing migratory habits, and two-paycheck families will cause problems in planning educational policy. If present patterns of fertility and migration continue, society in the future may be very different from the present one. Educational policymakers must improve their understanding of demographic analysis in order to benefit from the information it offers. Demographic reporting of trends, including monitoring important data and analyzing what has changed and what these changes mean, can help prod public recognition and political action. (SAS)