Formerly "Educators Resource Directory," Educators "Resource Guide" is designed to provide educators, administrators, and other education professionals with immediate access to a unique combination of educational resources, along with important educational statistics and rankings. "Educators Resource Guide" includes…

"Educators Resource Directory" is designed to provide educators, administrators, and other education professionals with immediate access to a unique combination of educational resources, along with important educational statistics and rankings. "Educators Resource Directory" includes associations, publications, trade shows,…

"The State of Preschool 2017" is the 15th edition of the National Institute for Early Education Research's (NIEER) annual report tracking state-funded preschool access, resources, and quality. Since 2002, many states have made progress, a few have fallen behind, and a handful have emerged as leaders. As a result, disparities in access to…

"The State of Preschool 2016" is the latest edition of our annual yearbook report profiling state-funded prekindergarten programs in the United States. NIEER's [National Institute for Early Education Research's] "State Preschool Yearbook" is the only national report on state-funded preschool programs with detailed information…

The "2015 State of Preschool Yearbook" profiles state-funded prekindergarten programs in the United States. This Yearbook presents data on state-funded prekindergarten during the 2014-2015 school year as well as documenting more than a decade of change in state pre-K since the first Yearbook collected data on the 2001-2002 school year.…

The "2013 State Preschool Yearbook" is the newest edition of our annual report profiling state-funded prekindergarten programs in the United States. This latest "Yearbook" presents data on state-funded prekindergarten during the 2012-2013 school year as well as documenting a decade of progress since the first…

This document reviews federal support for education between fiscal years 1980 and 1984. Federal support for education totalled $62.2 billion in 1984, an increase of 18 percent over 1980. Between 1980 and 1984 the largest increase in federal support (30 percent as of 1984) went to research at universities and related institutions. During the same…

Evaluates the budget savings potential of four methods of reducing the costs of the federal student loan program: (1) eliminate excess returns to private lenders; (2) eliminate excess administrative costs; (3) reduce the subsidy; and (4) ration directly by denying loans to some. (JOW)

Although the Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title I and Individuals with Disabilities Education Act are designed to help public schools, concerns were raised during 1997 congressional hearings about whether public charter schools receive their proper share of these funds. This report examines how selected states allocate Title I and IDEA…

The current system of producing and consuming educational research does not seem to be well-established. Outlines the history of the federal role in educational research and development from 1867 to the present and some of the problems encountered by those agencies involved in providing educational R & D. (Author/RK)

This publication is a comprehensive record of testimony and exhibits presented to a subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations of the U.S. Senate during hearings on 1976 budget requests for the Education Division of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Included are testimony and statements presented by approximately 100 different…

This bulletin is the fourteenth in this series of publications issued biennially by the Office of Education. The bulletin is prepared on the basis of responses given by Federal Departments and Agencies to requests for information about Federal expenditures for educational programs. Through this series of publications, the Office of Education has…

Analyzes pricing, aid, access, and choice in higher education and draws implications for national higher education policy. Argues that the United States needs a program that provides more assistance to students who are the neediest. (JOW)

SIGNIFICANT PROGRAM OPERATIONS DATA ARE SUMMARIZED FOR PUBLIC LAWS 874 AND 815, AUTHORIZING RESPECTIVELY, FEDERAL PAYMENTS TO LOCAL EDUCATIONAL AGENCIES IN FEDERALLY AFFECTED AREAS FOR CURRENT OPERATING EXPENSES OF SCHOOLS AND FOR CONSTRUCTION OF SCHOOL FACILITIES. BRIEF REVIEWS GIVE PROVISIONS OF THE AUTHORIZING LEGISLATION, ADMINISTRATIVE…

The "2011 State Preschool Yearbook" is the newest edition of our annual report profiling state-funded prekindergarten programs in the United States. This latest "Yearbook" presents data on state-funded prekindergarten during the 2010-2011 school year as well as documenting a decade of progress since the first…