This document reproduces the presentations given in a 1979 professional development seminar conducted for state officials responsible for education. The focus of the seminar was how the states can respond to the educational problems of the 1980s. Topics addressed include the overall picture of education in the 1980s, the implications of Proposition 13 and declining funds and enrollment, the governance of education in the next two decades, educating exceptional children in an age of limited resources, unemployed youth in the 1980s, the future of public and private schools, productivity in education, educational technology in the next ten years, the Brown decision and cultural pluralism in the eighties, international education from kindergarten through the twelfth grade, and action priorities for meeting the needs of children in the eighties. (Author/JM)