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Neetu Arnold; Mason Goad; Teresa Manning; David Randall; Nathaniel Urban – National Association of Scholars, 2025
This report sheds a new light on the history of the U.S. Department of Education (ED), its abuses of policy, and recommendations for a path forward. The report's evidence, and the long-term political dispositions of America's citizenry, supports the wholesale reform of ED, but not its elimination. The authors have structured their report in this…
Descriptors: Federal Government, Public Agencies, Administrative Organization, History
Dias, Mary Beatrice – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This research contributes to efforts in assessment studies related to science and technology interventions. The work presented in this thesis focuses on understanding the effects of policies that influence science and technology interventions, and determining the impact of science and technology interventions themselves. Chapter 1 explores how…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Effectiveness, Educational Technology, Assistive Technology
Hentschke, Guilbert C., Ed.; Lechuga, Vicente M., Ed.; Tierney, William G., Ed. – Stylus Publishing, LLC, 2010
This book offers a clear-eyed and balanced analysis of for-profit colleges and universities (FPCUs), reviewing their history, business strategies, and management practices; setting them in the context of marketplace conditions, the framework of public policy and government regulations; and viewing them in the light of the public good. Individual…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Academic Freedom, Federal Regulation, Global Approach
Comptroller General of the U.S., Washington, DC. – 1995
This report reviews the status of government agencies and operations that have been identified as at "high risk" for waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement; describes successful progress in some agencies; and looks at recent reform legislation. Six categories being targeted include accountability of defense programs, ensuring that all…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Federal Regulation, Finance Reform, Higher Education
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1981
These two congressional hearings are part of a series held by the Subcommittee in conjunction with its oversight of the Federal Government's enforcement of equal employment opportunity laws and affirmative action. The first hearing addresses what are perceived to be destructive rather than constructive policy initiatives and program changes in the…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Compliance (Legal), Employed Women, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
Barger, Robert N. – 1981
Motivational bases for affirmative action programs, particularly as these programs pertain to postsecondary education, are considered. "Motivational bases" refers to the basic incentives that are invoked in order to gain public support for affirmative action programs. Three types of motivational bases are addressed: those associated with reasons…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Comparative Analysis, Compliance (Legal), Educational Opportunities
Klinger, Donna; Iwanowski, Jay – Business Officer, 1997
A number of current issues and initiatives in higher education are highlighted, including impending reauthorization of the Higher Education Act, the need for advocacy of higher education in public policy arenas, a University of Florida program combining accountability and institutional autonomy, and institutional compliance with nonresident alien…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Accountability, College Administration, Educational Trends
Drew, Jenifer D.; And Others – 1981
A study was conducted to determine the extent to which federal policies, as defined in the Education Amendments of 1976, have affected the content and objectives of Consumer and Homemaking Education (C&HE) programs. The study was conducted during 1978 through 1981 in 10 states. More than 500 federal, state, and local educators and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Change Strategies, Consumer Education, Educational Change
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and the Workforce. – 2002
This Congressional report contains the testimony and documents presented for the record at the second of two hearings on the effects of welfare reform and the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant. Other areas receiving particular attention from witnesses included the impacts of education and training on employment patterns…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Block Grants, Economics, Education Work Relationship