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Tanner, David – SAGE Publications (CA), 2011
Government scrutiny and intensified oversight have dramatically changed the landscape of education in recent years. Observers want to know how schools compare, which district is best, which states are spending the most per student on education, whether reforms are making a difference, and why so many students are failing. Some of these questions…
Descriptors: Educational Indicators, School Statistics, Elementary Secondary Education, Decision Making
Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, 2008
The Board of Elementary and Secondary Education shares the Governor's concern about the need to prepare students for the 21st century economy. Technology has the power to enhance students' learning, engage them, and ultimately prepare them for the competitive world beyond school. In order to prepare students for their future in this increasingly…
Descriptors: Technology Planning, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Technology, Technology Integration
DiMaria, Frank – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2006
To help parents investigate and locate quality school districts and to help policy-makers, principals, and superintendents to make well-informed decisions about education, Standard and Poor's has launched a website called SchoolMatters.com. It is recognized by the U.S. Department of Education and featured on its website (www.ed.gov/parents).…
Descriptors: Web Sites, School Statistics, Educational Quality, School Choice
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Williams, Richard C.; Bank, Adrianne – Administrator's Notebook, 1983
Activities in three of eight school districts that linked testing and evaluation data with instructional decision-making matched the seven components of management information systems. Each district had a unique system that focused, respectively, on student achievement, school improvement, and staff capacity building. (MLF)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Decision Making, Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education
Booth, Ronald R.; And Others – 1985
In October 1984 the Illinois Association of School Boards mailed four-part questionnaires concerning collective bargaining and salaries to superintendents in 940 of the 1,006 school districts in Illinois. This report arranges the data from the 582 responses into tables providing information concerning four broad subjects: the current status of…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education, Fringe Benefits
Quality Education Data, Inc., Denver, CO. – 1996
As this report shows, the growth in the use of computers and other educational technologies has been substantial and accelerating during the past 15 years. The report summarizes Quality Education Data's 15th annual survey of public school ownership of instructional technology, covering more than 65% of all United States schools and districts--over…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Networks, Computer Uses in Education, Decision Making