The Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board directed the Arkansas Department of Higher Education (ADHE) to conduct a study of the graduate education needs of the state and the wise use of limited state resources to meet these graduate education needs. ADHE staff collected information from a variety of sources. As of February 2000, the ADHE…

Understanding the cost of resources used in substance abuse treatment is of critical concern to policymakers, payers, and providers of care. The Alcohol and Drug Services Study (ADSS) was performed from 1996 to 1999. ADSS is a national study conducted in three phases to collect representative data on the characteristics of substance abuse…

This manual provides a detailed simulation analysis of a variety of energy conservation measures (ECMs) with the intent of giving educational facility design teams in Florida a basis for decision making. The manual's three sections cover energy efficiency design considerations that appear throughout the following design processes: schematic…

This report primarily addresses the question, "What are the net benefits associated with targeted early childhood investments in Texas?" The expected benefits and costs of targeted early childhood investments are estimated and projected for an illustrative cohort of Texas infants: children 0-1 year old living in families with annual…

This paper establishes a comparison between the problems that IT (Information Technology) people are currently having in evaluating the return on the investment in IT and the difficulties faced by those who have been trying to find consistent ways of assessing the benefits of formal education since the 1960s. The objective was to determine if the…

Produced every four years by the Washington Higher Education Coordinating Board (HECB), the Education Cost Study provides detailed instructional cost information for the state's public two-year and four-year institutions. The cost analysis is based on expenditures drawn from two sources: (1) state appropriations; and (2) tuition revenue. By using…

Describes how one crowded elementary school was able to double its size and modernize its facility at low cost. (Author/DN)

Contains four reports on the latest developments in lighting, research and design, and a 10-item annotated energy bibliography. (Author)

The advantages, disadvantages, and costs of going metric under a national plan as opposed to no plan are discussed. The areas of manufacturing, government, labor, and education are given separate analysis. (This is an excerpt from the United States Metric Study 13 Volume Report.) (LS)

Open plan interiors in school design provide excellent opportunities for cutting costs by optimizing in construction and electric comfort conditioning. Important considerations to keep in mind when planning for the open concept. (Author)

Fort Wayne Community Schools (Indiana) reduced vandalism costs from $22,450 a year to $550. Buildings are outfitted with a variety of intruder detection devices connected to a central monitoring station. (Author)

An award-winning facility that is a superior expression of the latest in construction techniques -- techniques that are paring away at wastes in construction time and money, while maintaining structural quality. A related article is EA 504 766 (American School and University; v46 n7 Mar '74.) (Author)

The development of special-purpose information products for clients of the LEADERMART information retrieval system is described. (9 references) (RS)

In part I (JASIS, March-April 1973) the author proposed a methodology for evaluating a retrieval system based on how much users are willing to pay to use the system. Part II sets forth steps in testing the methodology through the analysis of underlying assumptions and through experimentation. (3 references) (Author/RS)