The Newly Founded Institute for Educational Research (Institut für Bildungsforschung) within the Max-Planck- Gesellschaft.

The article looks at the state of education in Germany, focusing on the Institut fur Bildungsforschung in der Max-Planck-Gessellshaft. It examines the public concern over the dangers inherent in the state of German education. The article considers one of the basic factors of German educational policy to which the present state of emergency is to be ascribed. It explores the constitutional principle of cultural federalism within the Federal Republic which coupled as it is with a high degree of central control by the Lander and local authorities. The article also considers the relationship between research, planning and policy. A comparative study on the strategy of educational reform is presented.