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Brissett-Chapman, Sheryl – Child Welfare, 1997
Addresses the critical need for culturally competent assessments of the risk of child maltreatment in African American families and the implications for both policy and practice. Advocates development of comprehensive, community-based, and culturally synthesizing approaches to evaluating potential and realized risks to the healthy development of…
Descriptors: Blacks, Child Abuse, Child Neglect, Child Welfare
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Cardinale, Gary – Social Studies Review, 1988
Expresses concern about how teachers will implement the California Framework for History-Social Science Education. Focuses on the need for staff development based upon four criteria: assessment, articulation, alignment, and allocation. Explaining these criteria, the author assesses how they can be used to implement the Framework. (LS)
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Elementary School Curriculum, Elementary Secondary Education, History
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Hughes, Carol A. – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 1992
A survey of chief academic officers (CAOs) and library directors at 96 research institutions revealed great similarities in their perceptions of institutional priorities; however, the CAOs ranked making electronic information available on campus or supporting the development of a national education/research network much lower than the library…
Descriptors: Academic Deans, Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Administrator Attitudes
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Becker, Henry Jay – Journal of Research on Computing in Education, 1994
Describes a study based on data from a national survey of elementary and secondary school teachers that identified exemplary computer-using teachers and examined differences between exemplary and other computer-using teachers, including school environments, personal backgrounds, and teaching practices. Collegiality, school support, resource…
Descriptors: Class Size, Collegiality, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction
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Eicher, Jean-Claude; Chevaillier, Thierry – International Journal of Educational Research, 1993
This theme issue, a report from the International Academy of Education, suggests ways to come to grips with problems of financing higher education. The crises of rising demand, labor market requirements, efficiency, equity, and diversity are discussed; and suggestions are made for financing expansion of services and student costs. (SLD)
Descriptors: Access to Education, Educational Change, Educational Finance, Equal Education
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Hess, Frederick M. – Virginia Journal of Social Policy & the Law, 1998
Pursuing fiscal input equity will not produce a more equitable society or mitigate children's home and neighborhood environments. Standardizing funding provokes greatest voter dissatisfaction in wealthier districts. Four institutional elements (teachers' unions, school governance, school discipline restrictions, and special education) produce…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Desegregation Effects, Discipline Policy
Chatman, Steven P. – 1995
This study uses iterative solution techniques to determine empirically optimal standards for student to faculty ratios by discipline and student level for a group of 11 public, research universities, all of whom were members of the Association of American Universities. One set of benchmark standards was based on four-variable solutions within…
Descriptors: Benchmarking, College Credits, College Faculty, Departments
Schauerman, Sam; And Others – 1993
One of the major tenets of Total Quality Management (TQM) is that organizations need to adopt a strong customer focus. At El Camino College (ECC) in Torrance, California, a matrix was developed to identify and describe ECC's direct and indirect internal and external customers. ECC then applied Quality Function Deployment (QFD), a strategic tool…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Faculty, College Planning, Community Colleges
Georgia Univ., Athens. Dept. of Occupational Studies. – 1995
This document lists core standards and occupational knowledge and skills that have been identified/validated by industry as necessary to all Georgia students in secondary-level health care occupations programs. First, foundation skills are grouped as follows: basic skills (reading, writing, arithmetic/mathematics, listening, speaking); thinking…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Allied Health Occupations Education, Basic Skills, Behavioral Objectives
Mississippi State Legislature, Jackson. Performance Evaluation and Expenditure Review Committee. – 1990
This report to the Mississippi Legislature presents the findings of a review of the cash management policies, procedures, and practices of the State Board of Trustees of Institutions of Higher Learning (IHL). The methodology involved review of: applicable Mississippi statutes; standards promulgated by the National Association of College and…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administration, Conflict of Interest, Educational Finance
Cutler, Ira; And Others – 1995
This report presents case studies from seven states showing how state governments are: (1) responding to demands for more efficient and effective delivery of children's services; (2) taking on additional responsibilities formerly handled at the federal level; and (3) passing on added responsibilities to the local level (school districts, local…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Budgets, Case Studies, Community Programs
Henderson, Cathy – 1996
Using data from a 1994 national survey of student charges (tuition and fees) at state colleges and universities, this document looks at increases, their impacts, paying for college, and the benefits of college education. In a question and answer format the opening section provides information on recent college cost figures for 4-year institutions,…
Descriptors: Budgeting, College Students, Education Work Relationship, Educational Trends
National Center for Fair and Open Testing (FairTest), Cambridge, MA. – 1991
Current proposals for national testing are either for national multiple-choice tests in which all students would take the same test or for a system of performance-based examinations calibrated to national standards. The Bush administration's proposals, as enunciated in "America 2000," embrace both types, beginning with administration of…
Descriptors: Accountability, Achievement Tests, Decision Making, Educational Assessment
Hashway, Robert M.; Cain, Karen Sue – 1992
This publication presents excerpts from a literature review on the process of budgeting and assessing financial need requirements for public colleges and universities. Excerpts highlight funding formula approaches used by some states and higher education institutions, linking funding with educational quality, funding formula development and…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Comparative Analysis, Computation, Cost Estimates
Office for Standards in Education, London (England). – 1994
The adult continuing education (ACE) programs provided under contract with the Gloucestershire (England) Adult Continuing Education Service were evaluated in January-February 1994. An evaluation team visited more than 60 venues, including main sites and a wide range of village halls, family centers, women's institute halls, and other outreach…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Continuing Education, Curriculum
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