The public sector in Sweden is under pressure to augment its productivity and cut costs, and the education sector is faced with the same demands. Most people believe that adequately proportioned, efficiently operating schools are essential to Sweden's long-term economic development, but this is seldom mentioned in connection with spending cuts. In this project, researchers are therefore developing a computerized educational model of the connections between school and long-term economic development. In this newsletter, a collection of essays is described entitled "The Outward Efficiency of Schools--Description," which highlight demands and expectations of schools from three viewpoints: the pupil's view, the organizational view, and the socioeconomic perspective. Also discussed is the ideological vacuum surrounding schools today and the organizational solutions that may emerge from the current process of decentralization. The first stage of the project was to develop a competent reference and dialogue group. As a follow-up, two simple computer models of the interaction between school and the national economy were developed: a growth model and a financial model. During the next stage, researchers plan to test and further develop these models, making them not only simulation tools, but a form of training in macroeconomic theory. The project is scheduled for completion in fall 1988. (TE)