State legislation launched the California Partnership Academies (CPAs) in 1984. Now operating in more than 200 comprehensive high schools, CPAs have been used as a model for high school reform in California and elsewhere. Academies typically feature multi-age learning groups, team teaching and career-based instruction. Teachers help students…

This brochure displays the following data for seven counties in southeastern Wisconsin for the 2006-2007 school year: (1) Total operations expenditures; (2) Property tax revenue; (3) Total enrollment; (4) One-year change in enrollment; (5) Minority enrollment; (6) Free or reduced lunch; (7) Graduation rate; (8) 3rd, 4th, 8th and 10th grade…

The "2004/06 Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study (BPS:04/06)" is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to respond to the need for a national, comprehensive database concerning issues students may face in enrollment, persistence, progress, and attainment in postsecondary education and in consequent early rates of…

The survey data on Colorado's academic libraries is organized by sector (i.e., public or private) and board (e.g., University of Colorado, State Board of Agriculture, Colorado Community College and Occupational Education System). There are library-by-library statistics and summary figures for boards and sectors. Full-time equivalent (FTE) student…

This publication provides statistical information relating to the salaries, tenure and fringe benefits for full-time instructional faculty, as well as other employees at Pennsylvania colleges and universities. The primary sources of data were the annual surveys of instructional faculty and staff at Pennsylvania institutions of higher education…

The National Science Foundation's Undergraduate Faculty Enhancement Program (UFEP) awards grants on a competitive basis to project directors at colleges and universities, professional societies, industry, and other qualified organizations to conduct regional or national seminars, short courses, workshops, conferences, or similar activities for…

School-effectiveness research has not yet been able to identify the factors of effective and noneffective schools, the real contribution of the significant factors, the true sizes of school effects, and the generalizability of school-effectiveness results. This paper presents findings of a meta analysis, the Dutch PSO programme, that was used to…

School-effectiveness research is constrained by ambiguous factors of effectiveness and a lack of theory. This paper presents findings of a study that used simulation to improve school-effectiveness theory. Simulation is also used to explore the direct effects of schools on individual learning. After introducing simulation models, the paper…

This report provides statistical information relating to the salaries, tenure, and fringe benefits for full-time (FT) instructional faculty and other personnel at Pennsylvania colleges and Universities. Tables and figures present the following data: (1) index of average salaries of FT instructional faculty employed on 9-month contracts for…

This interpretive overview of the "Science Report Card" provides a description of the ways in which science can empower and enrich the lives of students. This booklet also contains: (1) statistics which provide a picture of the state of science learning in the United States; (2) specific data that help provide a sense of the status of…

This annual report of the Planning and Budgeting Committee of the Israeli Council for Higher Education reviews: (1) the status of the Planning and Budgeting Committee, its composition, its work, and its relationship with the Council for Higher Education; (2) Israel's higher education system and a statistical review of developments; (3) planning…

This report provides a statistical profile of Pennsylvania College of Technology (Penn College) and its environment for 1993-94. The first two sections provide a profile and history of the college, organizational charts, and a description of the governance system. Section III provides tables on students, including numbers of applications,…

This report presents data on the nature, volume, and extent of crime during 1993 on Tennessee college campuses and in housing of Tennessee colleges and universities. Introductory material explains offense categories and how crime and clearance rates were calculated for this report. Based on information submitted by the colleges, individual reports…

Fall 1994 enrollment data for Sinclair Community College (SCC), Ohio, are presented and analyzed in this report. The report begins by presenting fall enrollments in fiscal year (FY) 1993-94, and tracing full-time equivalents (FTE) and headcount enrollments at the college from FY 1976-77 to FY 1994-95. After comparing SCC enrollments with those of…

This report includes detailed statistical tables concerning minorities attending medical school with emphasis on the underrepresented minorities (URM) consisting of Mexican Americans, mainland Puerto Ricans, American Indians, and Blacks. The report covers the following topics: medical school applicants, medical school acceptances, new entrants,…