NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 6 results Save | Export
Sparks, Sarah D. – Education Week, 2010
The recent high-profile data-confidentiality fights in Arizona and Los Angeles have researchers worried that access to educators may become a difficult path. In the course of a decadelong federal lawsuit over English-language-learner programs in Arizona, lawyers for state schools chief Tom Horne subpoenaed the raw data from three studies…
Descriptors: Confidentiality, Researchers, Statistics, English (Second Language)
Zehr, Mary Ann – Education Week, 2010
The author reports on a review of state policies by researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles, which raises questions about the validity of the use of home-language surveys as a step to identify students eligible for special help in learning English. While it's ubiquitous in schools across the country, the practice of educators'…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Validity, Federal Government, Politics of Education
Fleishman, Joseph H. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Colleges and universities throughout the country are increasingly coming under pressure from accrediting institutions and legislative bodies to implement comprehensive outcomes assessment initiatives designed to measure and document student performance. Over the past ten years pressure has been directed towards colleges to reshape their current…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Outcomes Assessment, Program Effectiveness, Correlation
Campos, Rosemary G.; And Others – 1976
To determine what resources are available to community health nurses, a survey was conducted of 345 agencies in WICHE's 13 western state region (Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming). Major findings were: (1) only two percent of responding agencies had a full-time…
Descriptors: Budgets, Facilities, Financial Support, Higher Education
Packard, Richard D.; And Others – 1990
The cooperative efforts of researchers and practitioners in building a model of essential teaching and classroom management skills as part of a process of educational reform are illustrated in this study by a local school administrator and university program directors and professors. The reform effort was part of the Arizona Career Ladder pilot…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrators, Career Ladders, Classroom Techniques
Chronicle of Higher Education, 2004
"Chronicle of Higher Education" presents an abundant source of the news and information for college and university faculty members and administrators. This July 16, 2004 of "Chronicle of Higher Education" includes the following articles: (1) "Who Knew?" (Guterman, Lila); (2) "Silent Treatment: A Copyright Battle…
Descriptors: Biochemistry, Higher Education, Copyrights, Educational Finance