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Download full textThe Newsletter of the Comprehensive Center-Region VI, 2000
This document deals with the topic of the charter-school movement. Anne Turnbaugh Lockwood's article focuses on selected, key aspects of papers commissioned by the Comprehensive Center-Region VI from experts in the charter-school movement. It discusses the potential for enhanced teaching and learning in charter schools, management issues that can…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Administrative Organization, Charter Schools
Notes from the Field: Education Reform in Rural Kentucky, 1996
Since 1990, a long-term study has been following the implementation of the Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA) in 21 schools in 4 rural school districts. This publication summarizes study findings through 1995. Findings across KERA strands suggest that reform would have been unlikely without KERA's extra funding, used to increase teacher…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Assessment, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
PDF pending restorationMertes, Barbara F. – Community College Issues, 1984
An overview is presented of the mechanisms for financial support, institutional resources, and institutional accountability that are needed to improve the teaching and learning environment in the California community colleges. Introductory material outlines the educational reforms that have affected the colleges, underscores the need to reaffirm…
Descriptors: Accountability, Community Colleges, Educational Development, Educational Finance
Hansen, Gary – Innovative Development Approaches, 1990
This series issue presents a description and assessment of the Agency for International Development (AID) funded endowment concept as conducted by a number of AID Missions and host governments in Latin American and the Caribbean. These endowments are being used to strengthen and sustain the financial base of existing or new non-governmental…
Descriptors: Accountability, Developing Nations, Economic Factors, Endowment Funds
British Columbia Dept. of Education, Victoria. – 1984
An advisory committee was formed to examine the extent of the need for services for adults with learning disabilities in British Columbia, the ways in which these needs might effectively be met, and methods for increasing public awareness of adults with learning disabilities. It was determined that about 15 percent of the adult population of the…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Programs
Arizona Board of Regents, Phoenix. – 1988
Volume Two of a report by the Arizona Board of Regents' independent citizen commission to examine the performance of the state's three public universities presents 26 working papers in four sections. Section One, Research and Graduate Education/Universities: A State Resource, offers five papers, including: "University Research and Economic…
Descriptors: Accountability, Advanced Placement, Blue Ribbon Commissions, College Administration
