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Getting to 2014 (and beyond): The Choices and Challenges Ahead. A Collection of Essays to Encourage Constructive Dialogue among Policymakers, Educators, and Practitioners Engaged in School Reform
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Balfanz, Robert; Boer, Benjamin; Carey, Kevin; Cohen, Michael; Hassel, Bryan C.; Hassel, Emily Ayscue; Hyslop, Anne; Levin, Douglas A.; Fletcher, Geoffrey; Odden, Allan; Tucker, Bill; Vargas, Joel – Education Sector, 2012
Education Sector commissioned an earlier version of this collection of essays in conjunction with a March 2012 event "Getting to 2014: The Choices and Challenges Ahead." This updated version includes new essays and a revised introduction. The aim of these essays is to present ideas, elicit feedback, and encourage productive dialogue…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, State Standards, Academic Standards
A Compendium of Papers on Federal Programs.
Pate, Wayne, Ed. – 1980
These papers, prepared by graduate students at Texas Woman's University as part of an internship program, are presented in three sections: (1) overview and administration of federal programs; (2) Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act; and (3) some procedural considerations in the development of federal programs. The specific topics…
Descriptors: Children, Disabilities, Economically Disadvantaged, Elementary Secondary Education
Welfare Reform. At Issue, An Opposing Viewpoints Series.
Cozic, Charles P., Ed. – 1997
Efforts to reform the welfare system in the United States have been gaining momentum since the late 1980s. Critics have been arguing that states should receive federal waivers to create their own programs to encourage welfare recipients to find work. The thrust of the 1996 welfare reform act transfers control over welfare spending to the states.…
Descriptors: Births to Single Women, Delivery Systems, Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Opportunities
The Children Hurricane Katrina Left Behind: Schooling Context, Professional Preparation, and Community Politics
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Robinson, Sharon P., Ed.; Brown, M. Christopher, II, Ed. – Peter Lang New York, 2007
Even before the 2005 "Disaster in the Delta"--as the devastation and loss wrought by the category-three hurricane known as Katrina came to be known--statistics emerged about the aggressive educational neglect of Louisiana's African American schoolchildren. The harrowing data about the inadequacies being as racialized as the distribution…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Educational Change, Urban Schools, Educational Policy
Quicker, Better, Cheaper? Managing Performance in American Government.
Forsythe, Dall W., Ed. – 2001
These case studies and analytic essays are intended to give the reader a richer understanding of when and how top managers succeed or fail in their efforts to use performance management (PM) systems to improve the functioning of federal, state, and local government in the United States (U.S.). The question mark in the title is intended to remind…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrator Effectiveness, Adult Education, Budgeting