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National Education Association Research Department, 2007
The National Education Association (NEA) Handbook is published annually for use by Association officers, national and state staff, members, and other interested leaders in the field of education. The Association's key governance documents--including the Constitution, Bylaws, and Rules, and the Legislative Program, resolutions, policy statements,…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Educational Finance, Governance, Public Education
Soto, Lourdes Diaz, Ed. – Praeger, 2007
Latinos in the United States have fought hard to attain equality, especially in the field of education. "The Praeger Handbook of Latino Education in the U.S." focuses on this fight for equal educational access and represents a significant addition to American educational literature. The contributors to this volume reveal that many Latino…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Access to Education, Equal Education, Hispanic Americans
Irons, E. Jane; Harris, Sandra – Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2006
Over the past 25 years a major shift in political ideology has refocused educational politics from equality issues to issues relating to excellence, accountability, and choice. The No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001 reauthorized the Elementary and Secondary Act (ESEA) first passed in 1965. NCLB legislation is a continuation of the educational…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Educational Finance, Educational Change, Educational Improvement
Nath, Janice, Ed.; Guadarrama, Irma N., Ed.; Ramsey, John, Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2011
Investigating University-School Partnerships: A Volume in Professional Development School Research, the fourth book in the PDS Research Series developed by the same editors, includes a collection of organized papers that represent the best and latest examples of practitioner thinking, research, and program design and evaluation in the field at the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Urban Teaching, Professional Development Schools, Mentors
Brock-Utne, Birgit, Ed.; Skattum, Ingse, Ed. – Symposium Books, 2009
The theme of this book cuts across disciplines. Contributors to this volume are specialized in education and especially classroom research as well as in linguistics, most being transdisciplinary themselves. Around 65 sub-Saharan languages figure in this volume as research objects: as means of instruction, in connection with teacher training,…
Descriptors: African Languages, Language Planning, Multicultural Education, Beginning Reading
Altbach, Philip G., Ed.; Gumport, Patricia J., Ed.; Johnstone, D. Bruce, Ed. – 2001
Contributors to this collection assert that radical alterations to the practices that have established and upheld the excellence of higher education in the United States must be considered carefully. They reflect on the failings of higher education, but note its many strengths. The chapters are: (1) "The American Academic Model in Comparative…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Educational Change, Educational Quality, Educational Technology
Molnar, Alex, Ed. – 2002
This volume features original studies and research syntheses on educational effectiveness and efficiency and serves to clarify what is known about effective public schools. It concerns educational conditions, policies, and practices with an eye toward student achievement, especially that of children living in poverty. Thirteen chapters include:…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Effective Schools Research, Efficiency, Elementary Secondary Education
Greiner, Ann C., Ed.; Knebel, Elisa, Ed. – National Academies Press, 2003
The Institute of Medicine study Crossing the Quality Chasm (2001) recommended that an interdisciplinary summit be held to further reform of health professions education in order to enhance quality and patient safety. Health Professions Education: A Bridge to Quality is the follow up to that summit, held in June 2002, where 150 participants across…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Competence
Grubb, W. Norton – Russell Sage Foundation, 2009
Can money buy high-quality education? Studies find only a weak relationship between public school funding and educational outcomes. In "The Money Myth", W. Norton Grubb proposes a powerful paradigm shift in the way we think about why some schools thrive and others fail. The greatest inequalities in America's schools lie in factors other…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Teacher Salaries, Federal Legislation, Educational Finance
Johnson, David, Ed. – Symposium Books, 2008
It is 40 years since Coombs (1967) first drew attention to the World Education Crisis, and specifically problems in the educational systems of countries in the developing world. Today, many of these problems remain, and are most visible in the educational systems of countries in sub-Saharan Africa. A large number of children remain out of school…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Democracy, Knowledge Level, Educational Change
Lucas, Christopher J. – Palgrave Macmillan, 2006
The roots of controversy surrounding higher education in the US extend deep into the past. This original, incisive history goes far in offering a needed sense of perspective on current debates over such issues as access, costs, academic quality, social equity, and curricula. Eminently readable and always lively, this timely historical account is…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational History, Access to Education, Student Costs
Meeth, L. Richard – 1974
This document presents the full report of a study of 66 colleges that agreed to use the author's cost-effectiveness strategy. Drawing on real-life examples, it is shown how other colleges can use cost analysis to bring expenditures in line with income. Necessary data collection forms and comparative tables that make implementation an uncomplicated…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Educational Finance, Educational Quality, Higher Education
Massy, William F. – 2003
This book asserts that improvements in quality and cost containment are required not only for the well-being of individual institutions of higher education, but also to honor the trust placed in academe by society. The book outlines a practical program for improvement. The chapters of part 1, "The Case for Change," are: (1) "The Erosion of Trust";…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Educational Quality, Higher Education, Public Opinion
Burns, Marilyn, Ed. – 1999
This book offers six stories on how administrators worked to improve mathematics instruction in their school districts. Each situation is unique and so is the approach each of these administrators took for improving the teaching of mathematics. Common to all of the stories is the knowledge that improving mathematics instruction is a complex task…
Descriptors: Administrator Effectiveness, Educational Quality, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Effectiveness
Howell, Leanne L., Ed.; Lewis, Chance W., Ed.; Carter, Norvella, Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2011
Yes We Can: Improving Urban Schools through Innovative Educational Reform is a empirically-based book on urban education reform to not only proclaim that hope is alive for urban schools, but to also produce a body of literature that examines current practices and then offer practical implications for all involved in this arduous task. This book is…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Charter Schools, School Restructuring, Test Results