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Mendelowitz, Seth – 1998
This paper addresses the overuse and underpay of part-time faculty at Illinois' Parkland College, and throughout American higher education in general. The proposed State of Illinois Senate Bill No. 1376 limits the use of part-time faculty to a supplementary capacity, or for use only when full-time faculty is unavailable, and will likely exacerbate…
Descriptors: Adjunct Faculty, College Faculty, Community Colleges, Comparable Worth
Stroud, Joanne; Rollins, Kathy – 1997
Many adolescents need basic health care and other services that address risky behaviors such as sexual activity, violence, alcohol and other drug abuse, and the consequences of those behaviors. This publication summarizes approximately 200 child health-related laws and resolutions passed in the 50 states, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, and the U.S.…
Descriptors: Abortions, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescents
Camp, William E., Ed.; Connelly, Mary Jane, Ed.; Lane, Kenneth E., Ed.; Mead, Julie F., Ed. – 2000
This handbook for elementary and secondary school principals contains several chapters on topics important to building level administrators. Each chapter summarizes relevant state and federal court decisions and statutes, concluding with recommendations for practice. The handbook is divided into four sections: students and the law, special…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Child Abuse, Constitutional Law, Court Litigation
Southern Regional Education Board, Atlanta, GA. – 2001
Tri-County Regional Vocational Technical High School, which is located in the rural New England town of Franklin, Massachusetts, is a school of "choice" that students elect to attend. All of the school's 850 students must have a career/technical focus for their studies. Most of Tri-County's ninth-graders are unprepared for high school,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Case Studies, Change Strategies
California State Legislature, Sacramento. Senate. – 1998
This report provides background materials related to the California Senate Select Committee on Higher Education Admissions and Outreach and the California Senate Select Committee on Higher Education hearing on undergraduate admissions at the University of California (UC) and the Board of Regents' Special Proposal 1 (SP-1), which eliminated the use…
Descriptors: Administrators, Admission Criteria, Affirmative Action, Asian Americans
Moore, Jamillah – 2000
In June 1995, California Governor Pete Wilson issued an executive order to end "preferential treatment and to promote individual opportunity based on merit." In response to the governor's order, the Regents of the University of California introduced a special resolution that barred the University from using race, religion, ethnicity, or…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Affirmative Action, Black Students, College Admission
Foght, H. W. – United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1915
Through what seems to be a very wise adaptation of methods of support and administration to schools of different kinds and to schools working under varying conditions in different parts of the State, but still preserving a high degree of correlation and unity of purpose, and by a commendable degree of liberality in expenditures for education, the…
Descriptors: Rural Education, Boards of Education, Rural Schools, Maintenance
Vandewalker, Nina C. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1925
The amount of legislation enacted for the improvement of school conditions during the past five years is one of the evidences that education is rising to higher levels. Better schools imply definite things--better buildings, trained teachers, a longer period of attendance, and new methods of school procedure. However, these cannot be had without…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Educational Legislation, Educational Improvement, Educational Facilities Improvement
Cook, Katherine M. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1925
The most conspicuous and pertinent tendency in rural education in the biennium is that toward better understanding of and intelligent accomplishment in the direction of more equitable distribution of school opportunities and school expense burdens. Rural education is still the weak spot in the American educational system. The passing of the…
Descriptors: Educational Opportunities, Administrative Organization, Rural Education, Educational Change
Boykin, James C., Comp.; King, Roberta, Comp. – United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1914
The committee on teachers' salaries and cost of living of the National Educational Association deems itself fortunate in securing the cooperation of the Bureau of Education of the United States in publishing this bulletin on the actual salaries paid to teachers in elementary, secondary, and higher grades in all parts of the United States. It was…
Descriptors: Rewards, Teacher Salaries, Teaching (Occupation), Administrators
Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1959
This bulletin outlines the programs submitted by 50 States and Territories for the second year of the Library Services Act. These programs reflect the planning and development which has been taking place across the Nation in the extension and improvement of public library service in rural areas. In the first year, fiscal 1957 (July 1, 1956,…
Descriptors: Educational History, Federal Legislation, State Legislation, Program Descriptions
Curry, Janice – Online Submission, 2005
This report summarizes some AISD activities to support reading and mathematics instruction in grades K-5 for the 2004-2005 school year.
Descriptors: School Districts, Reading Instruction, Mathematics Instruction, Kindergarten
Schmidt, Peter – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1997
South Carolina is planning to base all appropriations to higher education on performance indicators rather than enrollments and facility needs. The new law gives financial incentives to improve, and outlines 37 criteria for judging institutional performance. Institutions fear the system will be biased against them or not take into account their…
Descriptors: Accountability, Budgeting, Change Strategies, College Outcomes Assessment

Cooper, Charles J.; Schwartz, Herman – Update on Law-Related Education, 1995
Presents opposing viewpoints on federalism and state sovereignty. Charles J. Cooper argues for states powers based on a constructionist interpretation of the constitution. Herman Schwartz maintains that the national economy is so tightly intertwined, and the protection of civil liberties is too great to leave these functions to the states. (MJP)
Descriptors: Block Grants, Compliance (Legal), Constitutional Law, Court Litigation

Kopecky, Frank – Update on Law-Related Education, 1995
Presents a lesson plan that examines the effects of Supreme Court decisions on state/federal relations using the issue of school safety. Student handouts discuss the constitutionality of the Gun Free School Zones Act as it relates to a specific criminal case. Activities include several structured discussions. (MJP)
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Compliance (Legal), Court Litigation, Court Role