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Business Officer, 1982
The extent to which the Reagan Administration has achieved its deregulation goals in the area of higher education is addressed in three articles: "Deregulation and Higher Education: The View a Year Later" (Sheldon Elliot Steinbach); "Student Financial Aid Deregulation: Rhetoric or Reality?" (Robin E. Jenkins); and…
Descriptors: Accountability, Civil Rights Legislation, Court Litigation, Eligibility
Download full textSelden, William K. – 1978
Perspectives on state oversight in postsecondary education are considered. It is suggested that sufficient disclosures have been made to indicate that at least in recent years with the increased funding provided at the postsecondary level by government there has been enough fraudulence to warrant concern. The problem is to develop adequate…
Descriptors: Accountability, Accrediting Agencies, Agency Cooperation, Educational Malpractice
National School Boards Association, Washington, DC. – 1976
In this volume of digests of the major proceedings of the Ninth Annual Washington Meeting of the Council on the Big City Boards of Education, the keynote address focuses upon the quality of education, the funding of public schools, desegregation, and the overall problem of state and local finances. Other papers discuss the following topics:…
Descriptors: Accountability, Bilingual Education, Boards of Education, Conference Reports
US House of Representatives, 2004
This hearing focused on: (1) what data States collect to monitor the care and supervision of children in foster care and children for whom adoption subsidies are paid; (2) how that data is used today; and (3) what additional data or applications of these data might better ensure the safety, permanency, and well-being of children. Testimony was…
Descriptors: Foster Care, Child Welfare, At Risk Persons, Children
Stasz, Cathleen; Chiesa, James – 1998
During the 1990s, policymakers have become increasingly attentive to the relationship between education and national economic health and society's need to upgrade and equalize workforce skills, talent, and wages. The U.S. education and training system is fragmented, decentralized, and in flux, as more responsibility moves from federal to state…
Descriptors: Accountability, Certification, Coordination, Economic Factors
Borman, Geoffrey D., Ed.; Stringfield, Samuel C., Ed.; Slavin, Robert E., Ed. – 2001
This collection of papers presents the most recent research on Title I federal compensatory education. Building on 35 years of research, development, and practical experience, the book presents evidence of various ways Title I can become a more effective program and instrument for school reform. The nine papers are: (1) "Title I: Its…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Access to Education, Accountability
Doyle, Denis P., Ed.; Cooper, Bruce S., Ed. – 1988
This document presents the recommendations of a national group of policy analysts on strategies for improving compensatory education and the Educational Improvement and Consolidation Act (ECIA) Chapter 1. The historical context of the Federal and state roles in providing compensatory education programs is presented, old assumptions are reviewed,…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Accountability, Compensatory Education, Educational Finance
Comptroller General of the U.S., Washington, DC. – 1981
Academic progress requirements of federally funded student aid programs administered by the Department of Education (ED), the Veterans Administration (VA), and the Social Security Administration (SSA) were investigated. Eighteen public and private two-year and four-year colleges, as well as one public vocational school and one proprietary school,…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accountability, Degree Requirements, Eligibility
Woodling, Ruth W., Ed. – 1978
This publication contains the edited text of the proceedings of the September 1976 Conference on Education for Georgia Legislators. Addresses by 20 experts from Georgia and around the country are presented. The proceedings are intended to help legislators, educators, parents, and others interested in deeper insight into the issues of educational…
Descriptors: Accountability, Collective Bargaining, Competency Based Teacher Education, Conference Reports
American Association for Higher Education, Washington, DC. – 1980
Strategies regarding retrenchment in higher education are examined in three papers and commentaries. In "Basing Public Policy on Student Achievement: A New Agenda Item," Francis Keppel recommends that the federal government undertake a program of acquiring data on student achievement in certain areas of the college curriculum to provide…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Accountability, Accreditation (Institutions)
Peer reviewedWalshak, Lynn G. – Government Information Quarterly, 1998
Addresses perceived problems of the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) and the Government Printing Office (GPO) relative to a foundering program, electronic capabilities, costs to participating libraries, inefficient service, and accountability requirements. Unfavorable images have resulted and have been used by advocacy groups to bring the…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Accountability, Costs, Depository Libraries
Direct linkJennings, Jack; Rentner, Diane Stark – Phi Delta Kappan, 2006
This article summarizes the effects of NCLB on school districts based on four years of evaluations conducted by the Center on Education Policy as part of the most comprehensive and continuous overview being undertaken of that policy.
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Public Schools, Educational Legislation, School Districts
American Bar Association, Chicago, IL. Special Committee on Youth Education for Citizenship. – 1987
The third in this special series on constitutional themes, this document focuses on justice. "Due Process: What Is It?" (P. McGuire) examines the concept of due process as provided in the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments and provides lesson plans for a five-day unit on that topic. "Making Government Fair" (G. Galland) explains…
Descriptors: Accountability, Citizenship Education, Civil Rights, Curriculum Enrichment
Hines, Edward R.; Hartmark, Leif S. – 1980
Literature concerning the relationship between higher education and politics is reviewed. Attention is directed to federal, state, and local levels of government and to institutional politics. Federal involvement in higher education, governmental regulation, higher education lobbying, and the emergence of the new Department of Education are…
Descriptors: Accountability, Budgeting, Community Colleges, Federal Aid
Office of Child Development (DHEW), Washington, DC. – 1976
The present state of American Indian child welfare was investigated via: a review of published and unpublished literature; an analysis of legislation, regulations, and other documents dealing with Federal and State Indian child welfare; field interviews at 19 sites; case studies of programs; and a mail survey focusing on graduate social work…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adopted Children, Advisory Committees, Agency Role
