Enrollment is rising across the nation's community colleges, but completion rates remain untenably low. Reformers are focusing on the importance of using comprehensive, high-quality data on student progress and completion to bring about change. A core tenet of Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count has been to embed a culture of…

Students with emotional and behavioral disorders are at great risk for long-term negative outcomes. Researchers and practitioners alike acknowledge the need for evidence-based, preventive, and early intervention strategies. Accordingly, in this chapter an expanded view of prevention is presented as a series of data driven decisions to guide…

States are making progress in supporting effective data use, but the hardest work remains. Although states collect quality data and have enacted policy changes, they have not yet focused on meeting people's needs. This report includes the following: (1) Changing the Culture of Education Data Takes Systems, Policies, and People; (2) Data for Action…

At thousands of schools and universities, years of economic troubles have led to repeated budget cuts. The reductions typically fall disproportionately on maintenance departments, where cuts are viewed as less critical than those that directly affect classroom instruction. And so nearly every facility manager at an education institution faces a…

Surveys and benchmarks continue to grow in importance for community colleges in response to several factors. One is the press for accountability, that is, for colleges to report the outcomes of their programs and services to demonstrate their quality and prudent use of resources, primarily to external constituents and governing boards at the state…

A discussion of management by objectives by the staff of the National Education Association from the perspective of the teaching profession. (Author)

The first of two articles that deal with accountability. The articles outline a model that could be followed in implementing accountability systems. (JF)

A station manager talks candidly about how to, and how not to, manage a community television station. (Author/HB)

The academic treatment of advertising records is sparse for a number of reasons, not the least of which is lack of detailed, organized, and accessible records. Discussion of the types of records deserving retention, their organization, and the terms and conditions of access provides a model for records retention. (Author)

Techniques submitted by educational administrators to improve the efficiency and economy of school management. (MLF)

Focuses on four aspects of the management function--the management of the organization, of information, of personnel, and of resources, i.e., time, space, and money. (RAO)

An energy management program has resulted in an energy reduction, compared with figures of three years ago, of 28 percent in electricity and 37 percent in natural gas. (Author/MLF)

Recommends checking skill management systems in reading before implementing one in a school, and includes a guide to weak spots in some of the better known programs. (MB)

Defines the concept of statistical process control, a quality control method used especially in manufacturing. Generally, concept users set specific standard levels that must be met. Makes the point that although employees work directly with the method, management is responsible for its success within the plant. (CH)

HIT methodology for conceptual data structure design is briefly described and exemplified. Main features of the methodology are the natural formalism of the description of conceptual schema, and an easy-to-understand graphical way of communication between both the designer and individual experts substituting future users. (Author/MBR)