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King, Richard A.; Swanson, Austin D.; Sweetland, Scott R. – 2003
This third edition of this book explores traditional economic and political models and contemporary issues that affect the social, political, and economic state of schools. Like the previous two editions, this edition takes a balanced approach to understanding school finance issues by using paradigms of both the economist and the political…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Finance, Educational Improvement
Kerfoot, Caroline – 2001
The impacts of the adult basic education and training (ABET) courses offered by the Centre for Adult and Continuing Education (CACE) in South Africa's Northern Cape Province were examined. Data were collected through questionnaires, open-ended and semi-structured interviews, observations, and document analysis. Of the 221 students enrolled in the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Learning
Cordova, Lorraine – 2002
Alaska's State Training and Employment Program (STEP) was designed with the primary objective of reducing current and future claims against Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefits by providing training to those who are unemployed or facing unemployment. STEP is also charged with fostering growth of existing businesses and attracting new businesses to…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Definitions, Demand Occupations, Educational Finance
New York State Education Dept., Albany. – 1994
This report contains six tables of summary statistics for the public schools of New York State, including schools in New York City. The public schools of New York served 2,637,745 students as of February 1994. Information about these students, their teachers, and the schools they attended, is presented in the following tables: (1) District type;…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Attendance, Dropouts, Educational Attainment
National Centre for Vocational Education Research, Leabrook (Australia). – 2002
The question of whether graduates of Australia's technical and further education (TAFE) programs are getting what they want from training was examined. A market segmentation approach was used to analyze data from the 2001 Student Outcomes Survey (SOS). The market segments analyzed covered 93% of TAFE graduates surveyed in the 2001 SOS. The…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Career Change, Definitions, Education Work Relationship
Walker, David M. – 2002
The General Accounting Office (GAO) examined the effectiveness of using strategic human capital (HC) management to drive transformational change in federal agencies and reported on its own implementation of a new competency-based performance management system. First, the potential impacts of the following three broad HC reform opportunities to…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adult Education, Change Strategies, Competence
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Glass, Gene V., Ed. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2000
This document consists of the 2000 edition of the "Education Policy Analysis Archives." The papers include: (1) "Teacher Quality and Student Achievement: A Review of State Policy Evidence" (Linda Darling-Hammond); (2) "America Y2K: The Obsolescence of Educational Reforms" (Sherman Dorn); (3) "Forces for Change in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Court Litigation, Educational Change
Xu, Zeyu – 2003
Lifelong learning and skill flexibility are especially important for workers in China, where structural economic adjustment has generated 22 million layoffs from state-owned enterprises since 1997. Skills that were in huge demand in previous years, such as accounting, international trade, and language translation, are now facing serious oversupply…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Comparative Analysis, Continuing Education, Demand Occupations
Clements, Stephen – 1999
The Kentucky Long-Term Policy Research Center is engaged in a continuing effort to understand implications of an array of trends and policies affecting the state. This report examines the status of Kentucky's teacher workforce and offers recommendations on ways to enhance it. The five chapters are: (1) "Introduction"; (2) "Teacher…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Alternative Teacher Certification, Educational Change, Educational Policy
Berlin, Gordon L. – 2000
The Minnesota Family Investment Program, the Canadian Self-Sufficiency Project, and Milwaukee's New Hope Project are three antipoverty programs that were undertaken in the 1990s to end dependency on welfare by "making work pay." The impacts of all three programs were reviewed and compared to those of the Seattle/Denver Income Maintenance…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Client Characteristics (Human Services), Comparative Analysis, Employed Women
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Howe, Richard D. – 1998
This document provides comparative salary trend data for full-time faculty in 27 academic disciplines/major fields for the baseline year 1994-95 and the trend year 1997-98 for 262 public and 387 private institutions. For each discipline/major field surveyed, the report provides a Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) definition, data…
Descriptors: Academic Rank (Professional), Architectural Education, Area Studies, Business Education
Taylor, Lynn; Simpson, Wayne; McClure, Karen; Graham, Barbara; Levin, Benjamin – 1999
A Canadian study of the school-to-work transition followed students enrolled in grade 11 in 1990 (n=177), 1992 (n=172), and 1994 (n=347) in Seven Oaks School Division's three high schools. Based largely on questions from the Statistics Canada (SC) School Leavers Survey and SC Graduates Study (1997), the telephone survey focused on these elements:…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Educational Trends, Employment Patterns, Experiential Learning
Dumbrell, Tom – 1998
Australia's personal and other services industry is the sixth smallest of the 17 industry divisions in numbers employed. The industry, a collection of quite diverse businesses and services in the public and private sectors, has three subdivisions: personal services, other services, and private households employing staff. The employment level has…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Clergy, Clerical Workers, Cosmetology
Ryan, Chris – 2002
The individual results to vocational education and training qualifications (VET) and the implications thereof for lifelong learning were examined by analyzing data from Australia's 1997 Survey of Education and Training. Private rates of return to various VET qualifications for individuals were calculated by using the internal rate of return, which…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Cost Estimates, Definitions, Education Work Relationship
Blose, David T. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1928
This report includes statistics of the various forms of institutions that have to do with the education of the Negro race in the United States. These statistics are taken from the best available information furnished by State departments of education, private high schools and academies, teacher-training institutions, and colleges, universities,…
Descriptors: Enrollment, Elementary Education, African American Education, Land Grant Universities
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