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Olson, Lynn – Education Week, 2005
Students in New Hampshire will not be alone when they will take their new state mathematics and reading tests. Their fellow students in Rhode Island and Vermont will be taking the same exams along with them. This article reports that New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont have joined forces to create reading and math tests in grades 3-8. They…
Descriptors: State Officials, Mathematics Tests, Costs, Writing Tests
Lum, Lydia – Black Issues in Higher Education, 2005
When Jackson State University officials and their collaborators assembled a proposal for a $12 million social and behavioral research center to combat terrorism, they hoped Federal officials would give a nod of approval to what they believed was a high-value concept. The proposal, Featuring the predominantly White Mississippi State University as…
Descriptors: State Officials, National Security, Black Colleges, Minority Groups
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Alewine, Martha – Knowledge Quest, 2003
Considers how school library media specialist administrative responsibilities can carry over to a job as state consultant for school library media services. Discusses characteristics of effective administrators; collaboration; the appreciative inquiry process for systemic change; and duties and projects of the state program that strengthen media…
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Effectiveness, Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role
State of Hawaii Department of Education, 2006
"The Hawai'i State Officials Primer" provides information about special education in charter schools to Hawai'i state officials. It provides state officials an overview of charter schools, how they are defined, and the charter schools' responsibilities as they relate to special education. Understanding what charter schools are, their…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Charter Schools, Special Education, State Agencies
Alaska State Commission on Postsecondary Education, Juneau. – 1982
The feasibility of awarding a single annual appropriation for the operating budget to the University of Alaska was investigated in 1982. Study methods included a literature review and a survey of practitioners concerning the advantages and disadvantages of a single appropriation versus several appropriations. In addition to surveying directors of…
Descriptors: Administrative Principles, Budgeting, Educational Finance, Financial Policy
Hedley, Martha – 1989
A survey of 50 secondary state officials and one district official with supervisory responsibility for business education was conducted to assess business-subject-related certification/endorsement practices. More specifically, the instrument was designed to determine the following: (1) the number of different types/titles of…
Descriptors: Business Education Teachers, Educational Trends, Elementary School Teachers, Higher Education
Rivkin, G. W.; Brecher, S. L. – 1977
This publication is a guide for legislators and their aides to help them gain the environmental information they seek quickly and efficiently. The three sections of this publication are: (1) Non-Documentary Sources; (2) Secondary Literature; and (3) Primary Literature. These sections are arranged by the categories of information sources that are…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, City Officials, County Officials, Environmental Education
REIF, JANE
THE SCHOOL CRISIS IN NORFOLK, VIRGINIA, LASTED 5 MONTHS DURING WHICH TIME 10,000 CHILDREN WERE DENIED EDUCATION BECAUSE OF CLOSED SCHOOLS. FEWER THAN 4,500 STUDENTS WENT TO MAKE-SHIFT TUTORING GROUPS, 1,600 OF THEM TRANSFERRED TO SCHOOLS OUTSIDE THE CITY. SCHOOL CLOSING DISRUPTED FAMILY LIFE, WEAKENED COMMUNITY RELATIONS, AND HURT BUSINESS. THE…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, City Officials, Community Influence, Community Leaders
Civil Service Commission, Washington, DC. Labor Relations Training Center. – 1975
The instructor's manual for a four to five day course designed to assist public sector managers in attaining a stable and productive labor relations environment is intended for use with two other books, the Reference Materials and the Case Materials. The course, created principally for use in a formal classroom setting, can be adapted to suit the…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, City Officials, Collective Bargaining, County Officials
Womer, Frank B.; Lehmann, Irvin J. – 1971
The National Assessment of Educational Progress was used as the primary model in a multistate workshop on the assessment of educational programs. One day each was devoted to the development of objectives, exercise development, sampling, administration and scoring, data analysis, and reporting and dissemination. This document concerns itself…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Administration, Educational Objectives, Educational Planning
Colorado State General Assembly, Denver. Legislative Council. – 1971
The objective of Part II of the Colorado Legislative Council's Committee on American Indian Enrollment Problems report is to recommend policies and procedures for dealing with American Indian tuitions and Indian education at Fort Lewis College. The committee members worked with the Colorado congressional delegation and representatives of the U.S.…
Descriptors: American Indians, Committees, Enrollment, Federal Aid
Jaschik, Scott – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1988
A new survey by the Virginia Council of Higher Education found that five states have imposed a ceiling on the number of out-of-state students who can attend their public institutions. Many people fear that their own state students are being denied admission because of nonresident applicants. (MLW)
Descriptors: College Admission, College Applicants, College Students, Enrollment
Illinois State Board of Higher Education, Springfield. – 2000
This directory lists the names, addresses, and telephone numbers of members of higher education organizations in the state of Illinois. Included for the Illinois Board of Higher Education is an organization chart, list of board and staff members, and a list of members of the Illinois Century Network. Board members and administrative officers are…
Descriptors: Governance, Higher Education, State Agencies, State Boards of Education
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Lazaruk, Wally – Mosaic: A Journal for Language Teachers, 1993
Identifies 60 heritage/international language documents available from (or being developed by) provincial ministries of education in Canada (except the two territories and Quebec). It lists, by province, documents related to languages other than English, French, or Native languages, and provides the names, addresses, and telephone numbers of…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Instructional Materials
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Hess, Frederick M. – Brookings Papers on Education Policy, 2002
In the 1990s, Virginia launched one of the nation's most ambitious standards-based reform efforts. Encouraged by a budding national accountability movement and motivated by conservative distrust of the public school establishment, state officials sought to clarify what students needed to know and to hold students and educators accountable for…
Descriptors: State Officials, Program Effectiveness, Accountability, Educational Change
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