The National Collegiate Athletic Association is seen as a monopoly needing reform. In examining the money spent on particular sports, the questions are raised: Who receives an education, what kind of education, and for what reason? (LBH)

Producer of this Mexican American program relates the memories and experiences that brought about the bilingual television program. (DB)

Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) allocations for Indian training programs are presented via a map depicting allocations. (JC)

In John Steinbeck's classic novel "The Pearl," a poor Mexican fisherman finds a valuable pearl in an oyster. But instead of leading to riches, the "treasure" brings him only envy among his neighbors and violence against his family. He can't even convert the pearl to cash. Comparable drama is familiar fare for today's fund-raising professionals and…

This report presents data from a study of arts education in the Chicago Public Schools (CPS). Information came from surveys of principals in all six CPS regions; data on arts offerings in high schools available from the University of Chicago Consortium on Chicago School Research; and surveys of outside arts providers. There was substantial…

Data on 2,822 Vanderbilt University graduates were used to investigate alumni giving behavior during the 8 years after graduation. A two-stage model accounting for individual truncation was used first to estimate the likelihood of making a contribution and second to estimate the average gift size conditional on contributing. The type of financial…

Nova Southeastern University has put into place a President's Faculty Scholarship Award Program, which was designed to bring recognition and funding to the University's full-time faculty as they attempt to secure resources in support of research activity. The program was evaluated as viewed by the University's fall term 2001 full-time faculty.…

Individual states have a long tradition of providing financial support for their public K-12 schools. This support reflects the state's constitutional requirement to educate its citizens. However, states vary widely in both the amount of funding provided to public schools, and the distribution of funding among schools. The fundamental observation…

This Policy Alert updates a 1999 report by Harold Hovey, State Spending for Higher Education in the Next Decade: The Battle to Sustain Current Support, and two earlier Policy Alerts: State Shortfalls Projected Despite Current Fiscal Prosperity (February 2000) and State Shortfalls Projected Throughout the Decade (February 2003), all available at…

This paper notes that financing policy is potentially the most powerful policy tool states can use to influence how institutions, students, and employers behave in ways consistent with broader public purposes. It is often not wielded effectively. After identifying elements of financing policy and major issues that relate to these elements, the…

The findings from this study show that the Public Charter Schools Program is achieving its intended purpose: to provide states with flexible funding to support new charter schools. As can be evidenced by their growing popularity, charters are an important educational option for the nearly three-quarters of a million students who attend…

This publication provides information about the allocation of funds for student support to higher education institutions in England in 2002-2003. It also requests monitoring information on their use. The report contains background information on student support funding for 2002-2003 and guidance information issued by the Department for Education…

This paper discusses the policy and political issues surrounding school construction, and it illustrates how infrastructure banks would work to address this challenge. The paper explores the problems of overcrowding and crumbling schools, details the struggle many communities and states have in expanding their efforts to solve these problems, and…

Pacific Resources for Education and Learning (PREL) prepared a summary and brief analysis of the "No Child Left Behind Act of 2001" (NCLB) and its implications for education for the American Pacific region. This briefing paper is intended to help educational leaders understand the law and its expectations and implications for schools,…