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Dresch, Stephen P.; Waldenberg, Adair L. – 1978
Presented are the preliminary results of a study of the effects of relative labor market opportunities for the highly educated on high school academic achievement and college attendance. Across regions, a one percent decline in college relative to high school graduates is estimated to induce a decline of 0.3 to 1.4 percent in reading and…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, College Bound Students, Education Work Relationship, Educational Economics
Sotherden, Stephen; And Others – 1978
A comparison of the short-term economic costs of Mohawk Valley Community College (MVCC) to Oneida County (New York) with the short-term economic benefits to Oneida County for the 1977-78 MVCC fiscal year revealed that MVCC had an annual operating budget of approximately ten million dollars. Of this, 13.41% or $1,330,738 was contributed by the…
Descriptors: Community Benefits, Community Colleges, Cost Effectiveness, Economic Research
Manning, Sherry – 1975
This study assesses the economic impact of the Metropolitan Community Colleges (MCC) on the four-county region of metropolitan Kansas City, Missouri. The total economic impact is composed of a network of interactive cash flows between the colleges, business, government, and individuals, and may be derived by adding three distinct components:…
Descriptors: Business, Community Benefits, Economic Research, Educational Economics
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Millett, John D. – 1975
Economic decline is indicated by productivity per man-hour of work, per capita real personal income, and real gross national product. Unless new technology overcomes the force of a stable population and develops new sources of raw materials and of energy, economic decline seems a likely possibility. Creative management is a process of planning,…
Descriptors: Administration, Administrative Principles, Economics, Educational Administration
Rodriguez, Louis J.; Davis, Dewey D. – 1974
This text examines the economics of education as it exists in the United States. The text begins with a very brief introduction on the history of the financing of education. Then it examines the patterns of educational expenditures from 1960 to 1973, describes the current financial status of education, evaluates the contribution of education to…
Descriptors: Demography, Economic Development, Economic Factors, Educational Demand
Palakawongsa, Nai Nob; And Others – 1963
This report was prepared by the Joint Thai-US Task Force on Human Resource Development in Thailand. Volume I of the Report includes: Human Resources Development in Thailand--A Preliminary Assessment; The Educational System and Human Resource Development in Thailand; Manpower Demand; Adjusting Educational Supply to Manpower Demand; Education…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Educational Economics, Educational Planning, Educational Policy
Flora, Jan L. – 1974
Like all capitalist nations which have gone through a development process, the United States has relied partly on the rural-to-urban transfer of resources for the growth of an industrialized urban complex. The existence of a market-dominated rural sector and a noncompetitive (administered-price) urban sector has resulted in a major transfer of…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Expenditure per Student, Federal Legislation, Human Capital
Malcolm, Janet M.; Cargille, Charles M. – 1973
Population science, a combination of natural science, social science, and management science, deals with the phenomena associated with the human population size. Subjects include the rates of change of the sizes of the various subsets of the human population, the causes and results of those changes, the societal pressures for control of population…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Demography, Doctoral Programs, Environmental Education
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Paris (France). – 1968
This publication consists of selected articles, essays and texts from the works of economists on the relationships between economics and education. These selections, representing the range of orientations, methods and findings believed to be most significant, are organized into the following topics: 1) Perspectives on Education and Development in…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Economic Development, Economic Factors, Educational Development
National Institute for Literacy, 2004
In January 2000, the National Institute for Literacy (NIFL) published "Equipped for the Future Content Standards: What Adults Need to Know and be Able to Do in the 21st Century." Since then, people in states and adult education programs across the country who are using the 16 Equipped for the Future (EFF) Standards have been looking forward to the…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Students, Adult Basic Education, Curriculum
Sullivan, Kerri – National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy (NCSALL), 2003
This analysis addresses the role of car usage in employment outcomes such as employment status, average weekly wages, and weeks worked per year. It postulates that car ownership is an important employment tool for adults of low educational attainment in Portland, even in the context of other factors such as social networks/resources (social…
Descriptors: Motor Vehicles, Ownership, Transportation, Employment Level
Freshwater, David; Scorsone, Eric – 2002
The United States does not have a coherent national rural policy. The federal government has focused on a sector-based policy that has only indirect impact on rural America. State governments have failed to move beyond their traditional focus areas of education, corrections, Medicaid, and other state services. The diversity of rural America makes…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Counties, Federal Government, Government Role
Henness, Steven A. – 2001
Community development-oriented service learning (CDOSL) is an approach to service learning that integrates service with the school curriculum and the local community development agenda. This study examined the positive impacts that CDOSL has on rural students and communities. Surveys and case study research were conducted with 145 students,…
Descriptors: Community Development, Community Involvement, Educational Cooperation, Educational Strategies
Beaulieu, Lionel J. – 2002
Although the economic expansion of the 1990s was felt even in small towns and rural areas, events in recent months point out that the economic health of rural America remains fragile. Rural manufacturing has suffered sizable employment declines in recent months and only modest expansion has occurred in the service sector--the lifeblood of rural…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Access to Computers, Community Development, Community Needs
Council for Advancement of Adult Literacy (NJ1), 2005
A widening skills gap is at the heart of many of the major economic and social challenges the United States faces today. Too many Americans lack the basic skills and educational attainments required by a postindustrial economy. This places severe limits on the American economy to innovate, grow, and compete in the global marketplace. It…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Adult Education, Community Colleges, Partnerships in Education
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