The objectives of this paper are to: 1) Reconsider the goals, foci, and strategy of SASS, taking into account the original framework established in the the mid-1980s and SASS's potential to inform broad education policy in the future; 2) Identify potential new areas of questionnaire content related to schooling that are likely to be of importance to education policy issues in the future; 3) Review the content of the most recent SASS questionnaires in light of a) the existing balance between teacher supply and demand content and other school content, b) the extent of coverage of particular topics that appears to be excessive or the coverage of topics that appears to be of relatively low priority, and c) redundancy across questionnaires; and 4) Recommend priorities among potential new content areas and essential areas from past SASS administrations that might be included in the 1998-99 administrations of SASS.
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