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Alliance for Excellent Education, 2010
"Straight A's: Public Education Policy and Progress" is a biweekly newsletter that focuses on education news and events both in Washington, DC and around the country. The following articles are included in this issue: (1) Senate Appropriations Committee Passes Education Funding Bill: Bill Would Target 40 Percent of School Improvement…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Educational Change, Public Education, Newsletters
Gibb, Tara L. – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2008
Employing critical discourse analysis (CDA), this paper examines the attempt to bridge a Canadian adult second language policy with an employment skills policy. The result is a third policy intended to improve language education and employment skills training for immigrants. The analysis reveals that the knowledge economy and human capital theory…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Language Planning, Second Language Learning, Discourse Analysis
Brown, Phillip; Lauder, Hugh; Ashton, David – European Educational Research Journal, 2008
The dominant view today is of a global knowledge-based economy, driven by the application of new technologies, accelerating the shift to high-skilled, high-waged European economies. This view is reflected in the expansion of higher education and the key role of higher education in national and European economic policy. The Lisbon agenda seeks to…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Higher Education, Human Capital, Global Approach
Bosworth, Derek; Jones, Paul; Wilson, Rob – Education Economics, 2008
Globalization is putting increasing pressure on jobs in the United Kingdom, particularly among less skilled activities. The European response through the Lisbon Strategy has been diffuse, while UK policy appears much more focused, concentrating on the need to raise education and skill levels. The present paper examines the transition towards a…
Descriptors: Employment Qualifications, Global Approach, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy

Freitag-Rouanet, Barbara – Zeitschrift fur Padagogik, 1991
Evaluates the United Nations 1990 Human Development Report's portrayal of Brazil. Attributes missed human development opportunities cited in the report to the Brazilian military rule of 1964 to 1984 and subsequent redemocratization. Cites possibilities for human development, particularly in education. Questions whether Brazil will be among the…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries, Human Capital
Grossman, Tabitha – NGA Center for Best Practices, 2009
The long-term health of each state's economy rests on the state's ability to educate and eventually employ citizens who contribute to its economy by filling jobs in a variety of sectors. With the globalization of the economy and shifts in supply and demand for a wide variety of occupations, students in public schools need effective teachers and…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Human Capital, Preservice Teacher Education, Educational Improvement
Berry, Barnett; Montgomery, Diana; Rachel, Curtis; Hernandez, Mindy; Wurtzel, Judy; Snyder, Jon – Aspen Institute, 2008
Urban Teacher Residencies (UTRs) are an emerging innovation designed to embody best practices in recruitment, screening, preparation, placement, induction, and teacher leadership for urban school districts. UTRs can be a key element of urban districts' portfolio of pathways into teaching and a lynchpin of a larger strategy to strengthen the…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, School Districts, Teacher Recruitment, Graduates
Garlick, Steve; Taylor, Mike; Plummer, Paul – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2007
This report explores patterns of regional economic growth in Australia over the period 1984 to 2002 in order to determine how and why these patterns evolved. From the results, the authors have attempted to identify regional opportunities and the policies and practices that can assist in realising them and, in particular, the potential contribution…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Human Capital, Foreign Countries, Vocational Education

Tucker, Irvin B., III – Economics of Education Review, 1985
If productivity and earnings are not found to result from education, then an alternative theory could be that employers use education as a screening device to select employees. Employing the decomposition technique to compare income for self-employed and private sector employees, evidence is presented that rejects the screenist theory. (Author/MD)
Descriptors: Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Human Capital, Occupational Surveys
Santiago, Deborah, Comp. – Excelencia in Education (NJ1), 2009
By 2025, 22 percent of the U.S. college-age population will be Latino, a level already exceeded in four states: California, Florida, New York, and Texas. However, today, only seven percent of Latinos ages 18 to 24 have an associate's degree or higher compared to 9 percent of African Americans, 16 percent of white, and 25 percent of Asians of the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Human Capital, Hispanic American Students, Achievement Gap

Behrman, Jere R. – Economics of Education Review, 1987
Maximizing allocations of all human capital investments (in children's schooling, health, nutrition, and general development) may hinder the identification of education's actual effects. Relative price variations across individuals are difficult to measure even if nonschooling investments are observed. Therefore, schooling's impact is usually…
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Educational Benefits, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Consortium for Policy Research in Education, 2009
The Strategic Management of Human Capital in Education Project was founded in 2008 with one goal: to improve student achievement dramatically in the 100 largest urban school districts. Unless teaching quality and principal leadership improve significantly, lasting education improvement is impossible. In policy terms, without "strategic management"…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Strategic Planning, Human Capital, Teacher Effectiveness
National Scientific Council on the Developing Child, 2007
It is the belief of the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child that better public understanding of the rapidly growing science of early childhood and early brain development can provide a powerful impetus for the design and implementation of policies and programs that could make a significant difference in the lives of all children.…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Neurological Organization, Developmental Stages, Pediatrics
Ashby, Cornelia M. – US Government Accountability Office, 2004
In 2003, the Department of Education's Office of Federal Student Aid (FSA) managed about $60 billion in new financial aid. In 1998, the Congress designated FSA as a performance-based organization. In so doing, it specified purposes for the agency, such as to reduce program costs and increase accountability of its officials, and provided…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Student Financial Aid, Federal Aid, Federal Government
Amos, Jason, Ed. – Alliance for Excellent Education, 2006
"Straight A's: Public Education Policy and Progress" is a biweekly newsletter that focuses on education news and events both in Washington, DC and around the country. The following articles are included in this issue: (1) State of American Business: U.S. Chamber of Commerce Says U.S. Could Face a "Severe Worker Shortage" Unless…
Descriptors: Public Education, Labor Supply, Demand Occupations, Human Capital