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Epper, Rhonda Martin; Russell, Alene Bycer – 1996
This report examines the roles and functions of state coordinating and governing boards of higher education. Data are from a study reviewing 20 years' worth of data and a current survey. After an introductory section, the first section analyzes historical trends which suggest modest growth in appropriations over the period. Section 2, based on the…
Descriptors: Governance, Governing Boards, Higher Education, Long Range Planning
Connelly, Michael; Moss, Gregory – 1996
School districts often find themselves in a double bind when dealing with the public: they seek public input, but also are vulnerable to manipulation by organized interest groups that are not representative of the entire community. The dilemma is how to procure the overall community's public judgment of a topic and allow widespread participation.…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Community Support, Democracy, Elementary Secondary Education
Elliott, Stephen N.; Kettler, Ryan J.; McKevitt, Brian C. – Wisconsin Center for Education Research (NJ1), 2002
The inclusion of students with disabilities in assessment is deemed critical to improve the quality of educational opportunities for these students and to provide meaningful and useful information about students' performance to the schools and communities where they are educated. This inclusion raises important questions, however, concerning the…
Descriptors: Legal Problems, Inclusive Schools, Educational Opportunities, Testing Accommodations
Wright, Wayne E. – Education Policy Research Unit, 2005
This brief details the history of the federal government's stance with language minority students, and analyzes the implications of changes to its guiding principles made by the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001. With every federal re-authorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act prior to 2001, the importance of bilingual…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation, Minority Groups
Duthilleul, Yael – International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) UNESCO, 2005
This report sheds light on the use of contract teachers with a particular focus on Cambodia, Nicaragua and India--countries that have all relied on contract teachers at some point. The report documents the use of contract teachers in Cambodia, Nicaragua and India and outlines the experience of contract teachers in West Africa. It also discusses…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Access to Education, Unions, Incentives
Campbell, C. Dean; Sanchez, George J.; Tierney, William G. – Center for Higher Education Policy Analysis, University of Southern California, 2004
This publication offers an overview of the state of diversity in graduate education and considers the racial and ethnic makeup of the nation's faculty. It then offers recommendations for how to improve graduate education of students of color. The monograph is designed to help faculty, administrators and policy makers by offering strategies that…
Descriptors: Policy Analysis, Graduate Students, Graduate Study, Diversity (Faculty)
US Department of Education, 2004
This report of the NAVE (National Assessment of Vocational Education) Independent Advisory Panel fulfills an important obligation under the 1998 Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical Education Act (Perkins III). Perkins III directed the Secretary of Education to complete an "independent evaluation and assessment of vocational and technical…
Descriptors: Technical Education, Program Effectiveness, Education Work Relationship, Research Reports
Bacon, Beth – 2001
This guidebook presents strategic interventions for community change. It is designed to build an understanding of six strategic interventions and create the capacity to deploy them. It helps local education funds (LEF) engage their communities, organize parents and other residents, advocate for sound policy, and work with districts and teachers.…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Community Involvement, Educational Change, Educational Improvement
Baker, Maureen – 1996
This discussion paper addresses two policy questions: (1) Can Canada afford to maintain its income security programs and social services, given the higher costs expected with an aging population? and (2) Do generous social programs discourage family responsibility or reinforce expectations of assistance within and between generations? The paper…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Family Programs, Family Relationship, Family Role
Tomas Rivera Policy Institute, 2005
This document includes presentation summaries and policy recommendations from the 2004 Tomas Rivera Policy Institute (TRPI) Education Conference: (1) The Present and Coming Crisis: Demography and Education (Dowell Myers and Estela Mara Bensimon); (2) A View from the Academic Community (Moderators: Jorge Haynes and Jamilah Moore; Presenters:…
Descriptors: Demography, Paying for College, Hispanic American Students, Enrollment Management
Hauserman, Calvin P.; Stick, Sheldon L. – Online Submission, 2005
Post-secondary systems throughout Canada and the United States have struggled with funding issues during most of the last decade of the 20th Century, and the new millennium did not open with great enthusiasm for change. This article examines the impact of post-secondary education funding changes in Alberta, Canada, by tracing the historical…
Descriptors: Public Colleges, Educational Finance, Foreign Countries, State Government
Tumarkin, Laurel – Educational Priorities Panel, 2001
Because of elementary school overcrowding, federal "class size reduction" funding has not been used to reduce class sizes, but instead has been used to hire extra teachers to work with classroom teachers for some portion of the school day. These teachers are called "floating" teachers in most schools, but in some schools they…
Descriptors: Class Size, Federal Programs, Teacher Placement, Teacher Student Ratio
Reimers, Fernando; McGinn, Noel – 1997
This book is about how the process of deciding about education, or education policymaking, can be informed by research-based knowledge. Part 1 offers three chapters that attempt to clarify the central issues caught up in the problem of knowledge utilization--why there is so little utilization of research in educational policymaking, how research…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Fusarelli, Lance D. – 1997
Research suggests that policy change can best be understood as the product of competition among advocacy coalitions within the constraints of a policy subsystem (Sabatier and Jenkins-Smith, 1993). This paper presents findings of a study that examined the rhetoric of policy change in Texas utilizing the voucher and charter-schools movements as an…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Educational Legislation, Educational Vouchers, Elementary Secondary Education
Kamerman, Sheila B. – 2001
This paper provides a picture of early childhood education and care (ECEC) in the countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), primarily Europe and North America. The paper's main objective is to present an overview of the major policies and programs in these countries, and to classify them by their most salient…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Day Care, Early Childhood Education, Educational Finance
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