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Bhola, Jacqueline; Daberkow, Stan – Rural Development Perspectives, 1985
Profiles personal characteristics and employment of 1,131 long-term Kentucky residents (71%), early migrants (12%), and late migrants (17%) in 1979. Indicates early migrants, with 5-10 years residence, earned more, despite similar characteristics, than long-term residents and recent migrants. Identifies factors influencing wages for each group in…
Descriptors: Employment, Income, Individual Characteristics, Rural Development
Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), 2012
Policymakers and education leaders in Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) states have been working since 2002 to meet all 12 "Challenge to Lead" Goals for Education. At the same time, SREB states have had to struggle with the toughest economic challenges in decades. Even so, SREB states have succeeded in achieving many of the goals…
Descriptors: Public Education, Educational Policy, Policy Formation, Educational Improvement
National Council on Teacher Quality, 2008
This report presents the Kentucky edition of the National Council on Teacher Quality's 2008 "State Teacher Policy Yearbook." The 2008 "Yearbook" focuses on how state policies impact the retention of effective new teachers. This policy evaluation is broken down into three areas that encompass 15 goals. Broadly, these goals…
Descriptors: Mentors, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Competencies, State Government
Yoo, Yushin – 1987
The educational systems and requirements of Japan and Kentucky are compared in seven different areas. The first area compares total instruction days and illustrates the differences with a chart. Kentucky requires 175 days of instruction while Japan requires 240 days. Because of this Japanese students spend 150 to 300 more hours per year in school…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Extended School Year, Foreign Countries, Mathematics Achievement
National Council on Teacher Quality, 2009
The Kentucky edition of the National Council on Teacher Quality's (NCTQ's) 2009 "State Teacher Policy Yearbook" is the third annual look at state policies impacting the teaching profession. It is hoped that this report will help focus attention on areas where state policymakers can make changes that will have a positive impact on teacher…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Teacher Education, Elementary School Teachers, Middle School Teachers
Howard, Frank B.; Stevens, J. Truman – 1986
The public has recognized the importance of high quality science education as it relates to the development of personal life skills and the pursuit of technologically oriented professions. This report provides staffing and enrollment data for science education in schools in the state of Kentucky. The report identifies areas for needed staff…
Descriptors: Enrollment, Science Education, Science Teachers, Secondary Education
Kelley, Carolyn; Heneman, Herbert, III; Milanowski, Anthony – 2000
This report provides an overview of the findings of 3 studies conducted between 1995 and 1998 on school-based performance award (SBPA) programs. Such programs provide teachers, and often other school staff, with pay bonuses when their school as a whole achieves specific educational objectives. The studies focused on programs in the state of…
Descriptors: Awards, Elementary Secondary Education, Incentives, Merit Pay
Kentucky State Council on Higher Education, Frankfort. – 1991
This report presents statistical data and facts, covering a 10-year period, concerning college and university enrollment numbers, degrees conferred, faculty and staff status and compensation, financial status, and investments of Kentucky's higher educational institutions. Among the information revealed by the statistical data, which comprise over…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis, Degrees (Academic)
Marks, Joseph L.; Diaz, Alicia A. – Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), 2009
The "Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) Fact Book on Higher Education" is one of the nation's most comprehensive collections of comparative data on higher education. For decades, state leaders, policy-makers, researchers and journalists have used the "Fact Book" to find useful data quickly--and to learn more about…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Universities, Technical Institutes, Tuition