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Cooperman, Saul – American School Board Journal, 1988
Defends New Jersey's school takeover law as the final step of a monitoring process designed to ensure the health of local schools. Most of New Jersey's 583 school systems have achieved state accreditation, and many of the 16 that haven't will be certified within the year. An inset describes the takeover process. (MLH)
Descriptors: Accountability, Certification, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education
New Jersey Department of Education, 2005
The purpose of this manual is to provide information regarding the policies and procedures required for daily operation of the state- and local-level activities and events of New Jersey's VSOs. There is variation by organization since each was developed independently with separate parent organizations, constitutions, bylaws, rules, regulations,…
Descriptors: Student Organizations, Educational Policy, Vocational Education, Grants

Brown, Valerie L. – West's Education Law Reporter, 1990
Autonomy is the right of self-determination and self-governance of higher education institutions by independent academic boards without state government control. In "Sweezy v. New Hampshire," the U.S. Supreme Court defined a college's four essential freedoms: to determine who may teach, what may be taught and how, and who may be admitted…
Descriptors: Accountability, Colleges, Comparative Analysis, Decentralization
Seymour, Daniel T. – AGB Reports, 1988
Until 1985, higher education was a growth industry, and new programs were a by-product of that growth. Now, new programs must be justified by extensive data analysis. This trend and others indicate governing boards are taking the new-program approval process seriously. (MLW)
Descriptors: Accountability, College Programs, Educational Innovation, Governing Boards
US Department of Education, 2006
This workbook, submitted by the State of New Jersey to the U.S. Department of Education, is for State Grants under Title IX, Part C, Section 9302 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (Public Law 107-110). By January 31, 2003, States must complete and submit to the Department this Consolidated State Application Accountability Workbook.…
Descriptors: Accountability, Elementary Secondary Education, Public Schools, School Districts
Fuhrman, Susan H.; Elmore, Richard F. – 1992
The efforts of states to differentiate regulatory treatment among districts and schools are examined in this paper. Data were derived from case studies of four state programs: Kentucky's Educational Deficiency Program of receivership for troubled districts; New Jersey's Plan to Intervene in Deficient School Districts; South Carolina's Flexibility…
Descriptors: Accountability, Elementary Secondary Education, Governance, Program Evaluation

Science, 1975
Describes the current dissention between the New Jersey Department of Higher Education (DHE), and the faculty and administration of the state's colleges and universities. The DHE contends that university research should be carefully scrutinized. Rutgers University administrators argue that the DHE is intruding on academic decision making and does…
Descriptors: Accountability, College Administration, Educational Policy, Government Role
Blumenstyk, Goldie – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1988
In many of the 40 states where assessment is required by state law or policy, faculty members and administrators have shaped assessment programs so that colleges have the flexibility to use several kinds of measurements, not just tests. Some of the political controversy brought about by assessment requirements are described. (MLW)
Descriptors: Accountability, College Students, Educational Assessment, Higher Education
New Jersey State Commission on Higher Education. – 2000
This 1999 New Jersey systemwide report updates several key data indicators (systemwide characteristics, student outcomes, fiscal indicators, and extent of student assistance) examined in earlier reports and adds new ones (number of transfer students, credits, and academic performance of transfer students). Previous enrollment trends continued…
Descriptors: Accountability, Annual Reports, Educational Finance, Enrollment
McMahon, Eleanor M. – Connection: New England's Journal of Higher Education and Economic Development, 1997
The challenge in university governance is to provide sufficient autonomy to sustain academic vitality while ensuring that this energy is directed toward the broad public interest. Maine and New Jersey, two very different states, have been experimenting with structural changes, primarily decentralization, to balance autonomy with accountability.…
Descriptors: Accountability, Case Studies, Decentralization, Governance
Dovre, Paul J. – Education Next, 2007
The modern character education movement emerged in the 1980s as a consequence of growing parental and public concern for moral drift, or what sociologist James Davison Hunter referred to as "the death of character." This public anomie was captured in these words from Sanford McDonnell, chairman emeritus of McDonnell Douglas and chair of…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Social Values, Program Effectiveness, Ethical Instruction
Hall, Kenneth D.; Cunningham, Richard C. – Research Bulletin, 1974
Most secondary teachers lack the specific training necessary to assist their students with content reading deficiencies. This lack of preservice training can be overcome by a strong inservice effort. (Author/DN)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Inservice Education, Inservice Teacher Education

Richards, Craig E.; White, Robert E. – Journal of Education Finance, 1989
Examines the cost effectiveness of New Jersey's tuition reimbursement plan for 10-month private school programs for handicapped students, using multiple regression techniques. The study found accounting inconsistencies correctable by organizing an actual cost model that requires pricing of program needs, system cost projections, and a site-based…
Descriptors: Accountability, Cost Effectiveness, Disabilities, Educational Vouchers
Zahn, R. D. – 1973
The purpose of this module cluster is to develop or increase the preservice teacher's awareness of important issues in education in the state of New Jersey and Camden City and various nationwide issues in addition. The cluster contains five modules concerned with (1) control and financing of education; (2) future control and financing of education…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Finance, Educational Problems, Educational Trends

Hutchings, Patricia A.; Marchese, Theodore J. – Higher Education Management, 1990
More public institutions are now required to assess student learning outcomes. A look at Virginia and New Jersey shows these requirements vary, but mandated assessment may not produce needed improvements. Inadequate assessment methodologies, faculty resistance, and a lack of clarity about the use of results make this movement uncertain.…
Descriptors: Accountability, College Administration, College Curriculum, Comparative Analysis