This document presents an economic analysis of higher education in Tennessee from a student, societal, and state perspective. The cost-benefit ratios speak favorably for the economic value of higher education in Tennessee from the student's perspective. On average, a student may expect a return of $5.44 for each dollar invested; the return for an…

The 2003 Minnesota Legislature directed the Higher Education Services Office to evaluate and report monthly on state financial aid expenditures by type to date and unexpended balances. This is the 15th and final monthly report with Fiscal Year 2004 data. It contains information through September 30, 2004. This report contains data on: (1) the…

This report to the Minnesota Legislature outlines the estimated impact of recent changes made to the Minnesota State Grant Program on students. The Minnesota Higher Education Services Office is a cabinet-level state agency that provides prospective and current post-secondary students with financial aid programs, services and information. The…

The 2006 U.S. President's budget request of $56.0 billion in discretionary appropriations for the Department of Education (ED), represents a decrease of $529.6 million, or 0.9 percent, from the 2005 level. Even after this small decrease, the Federal investment in education will have grown substantially over the past five years, with discretionary…

Information concerning educational conditions in the southern Appalachian region is scattered, fragmentary, and often partisan to the assumption either that conditions are ideal or that they are inconceivably bad. The purpose of this study is to draw together the available facts in the case. Necessarily, this study is largely statistical. The…

An average of 1,000 school consolidations were formed yearly; public money spent for pupil transportation increased about three and one-half million dollars annually; and the number of one-room schools in the United States decreased about 4,500 a year, during the period from 1918 to 1922. These are the rates at which three important movements in…

The American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) is the primary advocacy organization for the nation's 1,151 two-year, degree-granting institutions and their 10 million students. AACC promoted the causes of its members through: (1) Policy Initiatives; (2) Advocacy; (3) Research and information; (4) Education Services; and (5) Coordinating.…

Article considered the need for better cost accounting and for realistic planning for the future of Catholic education. (Author/RK)

Presents a detailed State-by-State and regional breakdown of expenditure by public elementary and secondary schools for instructional materials and equipment during the school year 1972-73. The total figure was almost $1.5 billion, or $32.04 per student, by far the greater part of this being for materials rather than equipment. (WM)

A series of articles by attorneys and educators on the impact of the recent Supreme Court decision on State school finance schemes. (JF)

Discusses experience of using Dorsett M-86 audio-visual response teaching machines to teach basic statistics courses. Recommends further research in the design of the optimal mix of various teaching methods for a block of instruction. (CC)

Discusses the current financial status of educational institutions in connection with the development of computerized prescriptive and self-paced multimedia learning systems. Indicates the importance of designing less labor-intensive teaching processes in future engineering education. (CC)

Reviews past studies of the relationship between school inputs and student achievement. Concludes that the evidence is not all in and that researchers are drawing different conclusions influenced as much by their prejudices as by their methods of inquiry. (Author/JF)