This book analyzes reliable evidence to tell the true story of student debt in America. One of the nation's foremost experts on college finance, Sandy Baum exposes how misleading the widely accepted narrative on student debt is. Baum combines data, research, and analysis to show how the current discourse obscures serious problems, risks…

This is the latest edition of the "State of the States in Developmental Disabilities" study--a thorough and the only one of its kind investigation on public spending, revenues, and programmatic trends of intellectual and developmental programs and services within the United States since 1977. Directed by leading researcher, Dr. David…

Packaging student financial aid, bringing the various forms of assistance together into a combination of resources sufficient for an individual student to meet college costs, reflects national and institutional philosophy about who should have access to higher education and who should pay, and how the pool of applicants is to be treated equitably.…

This book provides a group of articles concerning the equity and efficiency of prepaid college tuition plans. Chapters: (1) introduce the subject; (2) examine the competing financial theories at play in this field; (3) present a study of the Michigan Education Trust's decision to expand its subscriber base by offering a monthly payment option; (4)…

This biennial directory of educational services for the disabled and their families lists 1,052 programs, services, and directories designed primarily or exclusively for persons with disabilities and members of their families, sources of state benefits, and other financial aid directories. An introductory section explains the purpose of the…

Instructional, administrative, and support services for adult evening education in Massachusetts community colleges are totally supported by tuition paid by enrolled students. On the other hand, day divisions of these colleges are supported by taxation and paid for by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Thus, an adult evening division student pays…

This directory lists 1,207 student financial aid programs or other services designed primarily or exclusively for veterans, military personnel, and their dependents. An introduction provides a sample entry and explains how to use the directory. The section on financial aid programs is organized, first, by type of aid scholarship, fellowship or…

This volume analyzes government policies for helping students pay for education beyond high school and was developed as a result of an October 1994 gathering of policymakers, analysts, and practitioners convened to review federal student assistance and to consider policy alternatives for the Clinton Administration. Chapter 1, "A Fifty-Year…

This report describes the program for financing public schools in Florida. The intent is to supply general information for those having a casual interest in state funding of schools and more detailed descriptions for the school administrator or the student of school finance. The first section of the report describes key features of the Florida…

The current sources of financial aid programs available in 1991-1992 for and about women are presented. The directory lists over 1,600 references and cross-references to scholarships, fellowships, loans, grants, awards, and internships designed primarily or exclusively for women. The directory is divided into four separate sections of which the…

Fifteen papers commissioned by the U.S. Department of Education's School Finance Project are contained in this volume. The papers examine the changing dimensions of the federal-state partnership in education. The volume is organized into four sections. The first section is devoted to state educational policy concerns, including various state…

Adult basic education (ABE) programs are not adequate to prepare the unemployed and undereducated to gain entry into the labor market and conceivably higher education. Some indications of the scope of the problem can be seen in a recent Division of Adult Education, U.S. Office of Education, report which indicated that more than fifty-one million…

A study was made to develop a rationale for determining the economic justification for a national program of library and information services as described in the second draft of the National Commission on Libraries and Information Services Program Document. The economic rationale is based on improved cost effectiveness and improved utilization of…

Regional library cooperation in Ohio operates under two organizational forms, the state-funded Area Library Service Organization (ALSO) and the federally-funded multicounty cooperatives. In 1974, to aid in statewide planning and in the development of each project, the state library commissioned this study of all its multicounty cooperative…

This report presents a review conducted by a multinational panel on educational policy in the United States. The report concentrates on compensatory programs in elementary and secondary education, with an emphasis on Title I programs. Topics covered include: (1) recent trends in American education; (2) the philosophy, operational design, and…