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Chambers, Jay; And Others – 1993
Current school funding systems established by many states are resulting in widespread disparities in expenditures across districts, and current comparability measures providing adequate guarantees for equity among schools are being questioned. This study, involving 95 elementary schools and 25 high schools in 30 school districts across 5 states,…
Descriptors: Community Resources, Comparative Analysis, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth
National Center for Research in Vocational Education, Berkeley, CA. – 1992
This annotated but nonexhaustive resource list, describing 21 publications and 23 organizations, supports efforts funded through the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act of 1990 to improve the academic and economic outcomes of women and girls in vocational education. The listings are grouped under the following topics:…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Displaced Homemakers, Dropout Programs, Dropouts
Consortium for Policy Research in Education, New Brunswick, NJ. – 1991
This issue highlights findings of Marshall S. Smith and Jennifer O'Day's "Educational Equality 1966: Then and Now," a chapter of "The 1990 American Education Finance Association Yearbook: Spheres of Justice in Education," edited by Deborah A. Verstegen and James G. Ward. The "Brief" first focuses on educational trends over the past quarter…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Blacks, Educational Attainment, Educational Equity (Finance)
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Paris (France). International Inst. for Educational Planning. – 1982
Based on the realization that the rapid worldwide growth of educational systems over the last two decades has not produced the expected eradication of social inequality, an international seminar was held for educational policy-makers, planners from developing countries, research workers in the area, and representatives of aid agencies from 33…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Developing Nations, Disadvantaged, Educational Development
Railsback, C. E. – 1987
Establishing instructional priorities in public schools is a worthwhile and important process. Because time and money are insufficient to increase staffing in schools, setting priorities is a necessary component of successful managing. Steps to be taken in setting instructional priorities are as follows: (1) Adopt a statement of mission describing…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Board of Education Role, Community Involvement, Community Planning
McDaniel, Robert H., Ed.; And Others – 1986
To assist state-level educational policy makers, information about the needs of rural adults and barriers to their participation in educational programs was studied in seven northwestern states. Telephone interviews gathered information from educational providers (approximately 6 in each state) and 47 rural adult learners from the region. In each…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Adult Students, Delivery Systems
Dolan, Robert C.; And Others – 1984
This report discusses diverse economic issues involved in educational reforms aimed at improving economic growth. The focus is on elementary and secondary education in the southeastern United States. After a general overview of the economics of educational reform, section I discusses the issues involved in modeling and estimating the linkages…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Economic Factors, Economic Progress, Economics Education
Hickrod, G. Alan; Chaudhari, Ramesh B. – 1985
This paper evaluates the equity dimensions of a grant-in-aid system based on the Resource Cost Model (RCM), as proposed by the Illinois State Board of Education. The first section is an independent evaluation of the conceptual and legal aspects of the RCM, focusing on both the weaknesses and the strengths of the model. In the second section, an…
Descriptors: Educational Equity (Finance), Elementary Secondary Education, Equalization Aid, Finance Reform
Kohn, Alfie – Phi Delta Kappan, 1998
Asserts that many privileged parents are sacrificing other children to their own and mortgaging their own children's lives. Affluent high-achievers often back ultraconservatives' efforts to derail detracking reforms, believing education is competitive and their children deserve more consideration than have-nots. Principals must appeal to parents'…
Descriptors: Competition, Conservatism, De Facto Segregation, Democratic Values
Batten, Pat – ERS Spectrum, 2004
The United States has long been concerned with providing equal, quality education for all its citizens. With state-granted equity funding to needy districts comes the responsibility of wise use of equity monies. This study is an example of how three New Jersey districts invested their equity funding in a highly effective early literacy…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Program Effectiveness, Emergent Literacy, Minority Groups
Center for Education Policy, Applied Research, and Evaluation, 2008
"Education Indicators" are facts and statistics that help to describe a public education system. They are tools which are useful in examining and measuring the effectiveness of the system. Examples include information such as the amount of local funds raised to support local schools, per pupil expenditures, pupil-teacher ratios, and…
Descriptors: Expenditure per Student, Student Attitudes, Academic Achievement, Educational Indicators

Adult Education and Development, 1997
The following papers are included: "Foreword" (Jakob Horn, Paul Belanger); "Internationalization and Globalization" (Ove Korsgaard); "Adult Learning and the Challenges of the 21st Century" (Marc-Laurent Hazoume); "Diversity in Adult Education: Some Key Concepts in Minority and Indigenous Issues" (Linda King de Jardon); "The Culture of Peace: The…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy
Garcia, David R.; Molnar, Alex; Merrill, Bruce – Arizona Education Policy Initiative, 2005
In 2004 the Arizona Education Policy Initiative (AEPI), a collaboration of Arizona State University, Northern Arizona University, and the University of Arizona, conducted its first-annual survey of parents in a systematic effort to capture parent opinion and establish a framework for tracking parent views over time. Assessing parent opinion is…
Descriptors: Private Schools, Testing Programs, Parent Attitudes, State Standards
Molnar, Alex; Merrill, Bruce – Arizona Education Policy Initiative, 2004
The Arizona Education Policy Initiative (AEPI), a collaboration of Arizona State University, Northern Arizona University, and the University of Arizona, conducted a statewide telephone survey to get parents' perspectives on the condition of education in the state. From March 17 to March 27, 2004, a statewide random sample of 400 Arizona parents…
Descriptors: Private Schools, Testing Programs, Parent Attitudes, State Standards
Jacobson, Robert; Green, Gary – 2000
The practices and perceptions of Wisconsin employers regarding welfare recipients were examined. First, 500 employers outside the Milwaukee metropolitan area were interviewed by telephone. Those data were merged with data from a survey of Milwaukee-area employers, resulting in a statewide sample of about 1,250 Wisconsin employers (25%, 35%, and…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Education Work Relationship, Educational Finance, Educational Needs