This paper discusses the work of the Education Trust and other teams of researchers and school leaders. If focuses on one symposium on and five research studies of high-performing, high-poverty schools. The six studies provided information about best practices in school leadership, organization, and instruction. Building on scholarship from the…

Over the past two decades, America has embarked on a campaign to improve public schools for all our nation's children. Educators have turned their focus to the outcomes of schooling. The Committee for Economic Development (CED) has urged such reforms, and this report concentrates on the need to link the way schools are funded and managed to the…

In 2007, the Texas Legislature (80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, 2007) authorized the creation of the Texas Rural Technology (R-Tech) Pilot program, which provides $8 million in funding to support rural districts in implementing technology-based supplemental education programs. In order to be eligible for funding, districts must have…

This report focuses on the need for better management of higher education resources in view of the rising costs and changing revenues now confronting higher education institutions in the United States. Rising costs and changing revenues are reflected in stagnating faculty salaries, a decline in enrollment, rising administrative and insurance…

Education in general and specific educational projects fit into the construct of the allocation of investment resources that is basic to economic theory. Two techniques of computing returns to education and education projects are benefit-cost ratios and rates of return, which both rely on measuring costs and benefits. While measuring costs is…

This report discusses diverse economic issues involved in educational reforms aimed at improving economic growth. The focus is on elementary and secondary education in the southeastern United States. After a general overview of the economics of educational reform, section I discusses the issues involved in modeling and estimating the linkages…

This document contains the four state-of-the-art papers that serve as planning materials for construction of the planning guide for the project, Accessibility to Vocational Education Programs and Facilities for Handicapped Persons. The first paper suggests techniques by which school administrators can identify barriers to vocational education…

A MODEL INTENDED TO PREDICT THE RELATIVE COST-EFFECTIVENESS OF ALTERNATIVE EDUCATIONAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMS WITHIN THE SAME SCHOOL-COMMUNITY SETTING IS DEVELOPED. THE MODEL IS AN ATTEMPT TO AID IN DECISIONS CONCERNING ALTERNATIVE PROGRAMS OF TITLE I OF THE ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT OF 1965. COSTS ARE ESTIMATED FROM BUDGET ALLOCATIONS.…

The purpose of this report by a panel of school finance specialists appointed by the governor to guide a budget study in New York State is to summarize studies on the existing apportionment system of public school aid and to suggest short-term steps for improving the equity of the present system. Parts 1 and 2 discuss the present operating aid…

In an effort to stimulate and assist higher education administrators to think and do something about the erosion of buildings taking place on many campuses, this publication serves as a basic overview of the problem. Rising energy costs, continuing inflation, and worsening financial conditions in general only compound the situation that has been…

The qualitative aspects of education are being increasingly recognized and education is perceived as a means for each individual to discover and learn for himself. With few exceptions, all school building in countries participating in the OECD Programme on Educational Building (PEB) suits the older concept of education as a transfer of knowledge…

A computer simulation model for allocating facilities and physical space is presented as a means of optimally allocating available educational resources. The model allows the decisionmaker to change specific program allocations, system parameters, and other controllable variables in order to determine the effects, both cost and utility, of these…

The costs of the Department of Labor's Welfare-to-Work (WTW) grants program were analyzed by studying 18 WTW programs from 9 in-depth evaluation sites. The programs differed from the standpoints of their service locations, target populations, and service emphasis, and their costs variations were consistent with those differences. The 18 programs…

This volume addresses the feasibility of operating small schools as the mainstay of the public school system. Research evidence indicates that small schools are associated with better student outcomes and that they make personal attention, academic focus, and experiential curricula possible. The premise that small schools are more expensive has…

This study examined how eight rural, high-impact Minnesota school districts (defined as those losing or gaining a high percentage of student population due to school-choice implementation in fiscal year 1995) responded to school choice policy. Data from semistructured interviews with each district's superintendent were sorted and analyzed. In each…