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Download full textParadise, Andrew – Council for Advancement and Support of Education, 2015
In 2011, the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) founded the Center for Community College Advancement to provide training and resources to help community colleges build and sustain effective fundraising, alumni relations, and communications and marketing programs. A goal for the center is to collect data on best practices at…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Fund Raising, Alumni, Institutional Advancement
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Direct linkAltrichter, Herbert; Kemethofer, David – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2015
"New" school inspections are essential parts of "evidence-based governance" concepts and have been implemented by many European countries as a major strategy to assure and improve the effectiveness and quality of their education systems. However, national inspection systems vary in their composition and in their contextual…
Descriptors: Accountability, Online Surveys, Principals, Inspection
Powell, Brett A.; Gilleland, Diane Suitt; Pearson, L. Carolyn – Journal of Higher Education, 2012
Institutions of higher education are under pressure to be accountable for their expenditures while demonstrating their effectiveness. Through structural equation modeling, a relationship was found between expenditures and the efficiency and effectiveness of an institution, and an optimal expenditure level was found that maximized an institution's…
Descriptors: Expenditures, Efficiency, Benchmarking, Models
Scott, George A. – US Government Accountability Office, 2011
Almost 40 percent of all public school students in the District of Columbia (D.C. or District) were enrolled in charter schools in the 2010-11 school year. The D.C. School Reform Act established the Public Charter School Board (PCSB) for the purpose of authorizing and overseeing charter schools. Congress required GAO (US Government Accountability…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, School Restructuring, Real Estate, Boards of Education
Ashby, Cornelia M. – US Government Accountability Office, 2010
Between fiscal years 2004 and 2009, Congress appropriated nearly $190 million in federal payments for school improvement to the District of Columbia (D.C.). This includes $85 million to the state education office--currently the Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE)--to expand public charter schools and $105 million to D.C. Public…
Descriptors: Expenditures, Charter Schools, Educational Finance, Educational Change
Stecher, Brian M. – RAND Corporation, 2005
The author presents testimony on the value of process indicators--i.e., measures of the services the education system is actually providing--for improving educational governance. He states that the case in favor of process indicators can be summarized in terms of three propositions. First, information about system performance is critical for…
Descriptors: Program Improvement, Governance, Program Effectiveness, Educational Change
