The Minister Sets Priorities: Information for Action.

Administrators of regional bodies of educational administration and of the Russian Academy of Education and methodological services participated in a meeting of the board of the Federal Ministry of Education (31 March-1 April). The media showed understandable interest. Aleksandr Nikolaevich Tikhonov, minister of general and professional education of the Russian Federation, delivered a paper entitled "On the Principal Guidelines and Concerns in the Sphere of Russia's Educational Policy." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]