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Download full textMeyers, Coby; Proger, Amy; Abe, Yasuyo; Weinstock, Phyllis; Chan, Vincent – Regional Educational Laboratory Midwest, 2016
Many states are attempting to identify schools that perform better than schools with similar populations. Such "beating-the-odds" schools offer opportunities to identify promising practices that can be implemented by other schools serving similar populations. This study uses data from the Michigan Department of Education to demonstrate…
Descriptors: School Effectiveness, Statistical Analysis, Identification, Academic Achievement
Direct linkPeters, Robert A. – Teaching Public Administration, 2015
Focus groups were convened in 2005 and 2013 as the first step in successive MPA curriculum review and revision processes. Although the criteria for selecting participants and the questions posed to the groups were similar, the focus groups generated dramatically different perspectives regarding the challenges confronting administrators. An…
Descriptors: Public Administration Education, Masters Programs, Curriculum Evaluation, Focus Groups
Weber, C. U.; And Others – 1978
The Ypsilanti Perry Preschool Project was a compensatory education project conducted during the 1960's. This paper provides a benefit cost analysis of the project. The internal rate of return to investment in the Perry Project was calculated using marginal analysis. Benefits and costs for the experimental group and the control group were compared.…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Cost Effectiveness, Elementary Education, Longitudinal Studies
Mattoon, Richard – Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, 2004
Michigan's school finance reform aimed primarily to improve the equity in funding across school districts. Ten years later, policymakers are turning their attention to the adequacy of education--ensuring that schools provide a desired level of learning and the necessary resources to support student achievement. However, defining what is adequate…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Finance Reform, Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Quality
Johanningmeier, Ervin V. – American Educational History Journal, 2004
This article features the life and accomplishments of Stuart Appleton Courtis. As a teacher, a developer of tests in a variety of subjects, a member of several school surveys, a student of educational measurement, and a director of a bureau of educational research, Courtis participated in the twentieth-century transformation of public education.…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Measurement Techniques, School Surveys, Public Education
Wood, Thomas E. – Academic Questions, 2003
Elite universities will be returning to court to clarify the murky ruling in "Grutter v. Bollinger". Thomas E. Wood predicts that judges will again have to pass judgment on the constitutionality of dubious scheming by elite universities to achieve their critical mass of black students legitimately--without resort to tacit quotas and…
Descriptors: Judges, Race, Court Litigation, Selective Admission
Michigan State Dept. of Education, Lansing. Research, Evaluation, and Assessment Services. – 1975
Chapter 3 of the State School Aid Act was enacted to improve achievement in the basic cognitive skills of low-achieving puPils in Michigan. The program provided funds and considerable program discretion for local school districts with high concentration of low achieving children in the grades K-6. These districts received funds for a three-year…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Compensatory Education, Data Collection, Educational Resources
Cross, Cynthia Sahagian – 1979
A study of loan availability in Michigan through the federal Guaranteed Student Loan Program outlines the evolution of federal lending programs for college students and describes program characteristics, funds, costs, defaults, and funding systems. The situation for borrowers and lenders in the state and its regions is examined, including…
Descriptors: Banking, College Students, Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis
Wiley, Edward W.; Allen, Jessica – Education Policy Research Unit, 2005
This appendix describes the analytical procedures used to project the status of schools in the Great Lakes state toward meeting AYP (Adequate Yearly Progress) requirements from 2005 to 2014. To "make AYP," the school as a whole and each numerically significant subgroup must meet "Annual Measurable Objectives" (annual…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Educational Improvement, Federal Programs, Educational Indicators
