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Direct linkJay Pennington – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Over the past several years, schools across the nation have seen historic declines in student performance in reading, math, and other academic subjects due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. School closures adversely affected student groups at different rates and further exacerbated long-standing learning gaps. There has been a debate among scholars for…
Descriptors: Expenditures, Student Needs, Educational Finance, Outcomes of Education
Hopkins, Mark Loren – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Using archival records preserved by Iowa's community colleges, private four-year colleges, and public universities, this dissertation examines how Iowa's established higher education institutions responded to and adjusted to the "presence" of new two-year colleges from 1965 to 1975. This decade was a critical period of development for…
Descriptors: Public Colleges, Private Colleges, Community Colleges, Educational History
Wasmoen, Alan – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Community colleges remain an important component of higher education in the United States, offering readily-accessible education and career training to a diverse array of students from different backgrounds. During the 2007-2009 economic recession, community colleges experienced enrollment increases. Simultaneously, however, community colleges…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, School Business Officials, School Administration, Leadership Styles
Rasmussen, Deborah June – ProQuest LLC, 2018
America spends $115,000 per-pupil on education, one of the highest in the world. Even with high funding being provided for the educational budget, standardized state assessment scores are not reflecting the aim for higher quality of education that NCLB is trying to accomplish. Teachers use an assortment of assessments to gauge student's mastery…
Descriptors: Correlation, Elementary School Students, Grade 4, State Aid
Humburg, Dawn Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The phrase "survival of the fittest" is coming to fruition in higher education today. Less than strategic financial moves have no place in post-secondary education. Facing the realities of our current economy is dictating major changes in how colleges are "doing business." These changes present enormous challenges to community…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Finance, Two Year College Students, Graduation
Anderson, Christopher L. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The problem. To consider reorganization of two or more Iowa school districts in light of declining enrollment, dwindling financial resources, the end of the state budget guarantee program and pressure to provide the most rigorous and relevant education possible to Iowa's students. Specifically, the problem is to determine what two or more school…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), School District Reorganization, Boards of Education, Superintendents
