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Ray, Brian D., Ed. – Home School Researcher, 1988
This document consists of a collection of the first 14 issues of the "Home School Researcher," an interacative newsletter dedicated solely to Home Centered Learning Research. Purposes of the newsletter are to: (1) profile researchers of home schooling; (2) provide information on resources for research activities; (3) discuss problematic…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Educational Practices, Home Schooling, Newsletters
Download full textYsseldyke, James E.; Thurlow, Martha – NCEO Policy Directions, 1994
Students with disabilities have been excluded to an unreasonable extent from large-scale assessment programs at the national, state, and local levels. One implication of this exclusion practice is that students who are left out of assessments tend not to be considered during reform efforts. Another implication is that estimates of performance are…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Educational Assessment, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
Mumford, Thelma – 1987
A program was designed to reduce the academic gap between aptitude and achievement of 150 gifted underachievers in grades 5-8 who had been removed from a Georgia-funded gifted program due to poor achievement test scores and were subsequently enrolled in the Atlanta Public School System's locally funded gifted program. The program also sought to…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Academic Achievement, Academically Gifted, Aptitude
Dade County Public Schools, Miami, FL. Office of Educational Accountability. – 1984
This document combines and consolidates several statistical reports published separately in prior years. The report is designed to present a summary of statistical information on the status of public education in Dade County, Florida. It discusses school organization, pupils, educational programs, achievement and other outcomes of schooling,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Education, Comparative Analysis, Educational Finance
Sherman, Joel D. – 1986
By focusing attention on comparative state performance in educating students, the Wall Chart (State Education Statistics, 1983) forced policymakers to consider state differences in student populations and the consequences of these differences for the outcomes of state systems of education. This paper presents the results of a study that attempted…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cost Effectiveness, Cost Indexes, Disabilities
Blank, Rolf K. – 1987
The Council of Chief State School Officers is in the process of assessing reforms that are aimed at improving science and mathematics education at the elementary and secondary levels. This document provides tabulations of the number of states that currently collect data on various indicators of science and mathematics education. Six categories of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Curriculum, Data Collection, Educational Change
Barnow, Burt S., Ed.; King, Christopher T., Ed. – 2000
This book, which is intended for policymakers, administrators, and researchers, contains 13 research papers and reviews of the literature on increasing the effectiveness of publicly funded training. The following papers are included: "Publicly Funded Training in a Changing Labor Market" (Burt S. Barnow, Christopher T. King); "The…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Cost Effectiveness, Disadvantaged, Dislocated Workers
