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White, Carolyn C.; And Others – 1989
This report presents annual basic descriptive and longitudinal population statistics on people with mental retardation and related conditions in state-operated residential facilities in the United States. Part I presents data on numbers of persons with mental retardation and related conditions, including first admissions, readmissions, releases,…
Descriptors: Adults, Children, Demography, Institutionalized Persons
Young, Peter C.; Fone, Martin – School Business Affairs, 1997
Discusses seven propositions underlying the strategies that insurance pools can, will, and must pursue: (1) risk management versus risk financing; (2) elimination of windfall advantages; (3) the maintenance of market-dominant status; (4) cost leadership; (5) client focus; (6) innovation and diversification; and (7) leadership challenges. A sidebar…
Descriptors: Competition, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education
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Sheekey, Arthur D. – TechTrends, 1997
Discusses the networking of educational services for schools, homes, and communities. Highlights include equal access; the development of digital technologies; visions for electronic information services; the public sector; the private sector; creating learning communities; and future possibilities, including funding strategies. (LRW)
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Networks, Equal Education
Missingham, Roxanne – Australian Special Libraries, 1994
Outsourcing has been proposed as a method for improving effectiveness and productivity in Australian public library service. Developments, drawbacks, and potentials are discussed, and differences between contracting out whole services as opposed to selected activities are examined. (AEF)
Descriptors: Costs, Foreign Countries, Government Libraries, Library Administration
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Rowlands, Ian – Journal of Government Information, 1995
Discusses findings of PUBLAW2, a European Commission follow-up study on the impact of its "Guidelines for Improving the Synergy between the Public and Private Sectors in the Information Market." Highlights include the study context; the impact of the guidelines; and issues of privacy and data protection, copyright and ownership,…
Descriptors: Copyrights, Evaluation Criteria, Foreign Countries, Guidelines
Hayes, Robert M.; Chen, Ching-chih – Microcomputers for Information Management, 1995
Discusses principles developed at the 1994 NIT (International Conference on New Information Technology) in Alexandria (Virginia) that focused on the global information infrastructure. Topics include educating and training users, responsibilities and education of information professionals, the role of national agencies, public and private sector…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Economic Factors, Global Approach, Government Role
Rosenbaum, Howard – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1992
Discussion of the interrelationship of information technology, managers, and users, and the structure of public sector organizations focuses on a case study that examined the organizational changes in the information services department of a large, urban county government as a result of the use of sophisticated information technologies. (11…
Descriptors: Administrators, Case Studies, Data Processing, Information Services
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Cohen, Audrey J. – Public Personnel Management, 1993
A survey of 4,259 Baruch College alumni received 1,995 responses indicating that significantly more African-American business majors worked in the public sector. Best predictor of employment sector for whites was college major. African Americans who rated curricular guidance favorably and had no job offer at graduation were more likely to work in…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, College Graduates, Government Employees, Higher Education
Buschman, John – American Libraries, 1990
Discusses the role of information technology in libraries and suggests that more questions need to be asked about its proper role. Topics discussed include the relationship of technological advances to social progress; private versus public sector control; changing values of librarianship; social and political implications; and access to…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Information Technology, Library Automation, Political Issues
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Lambropoulos, Haris S. – Economics of Education Review, 1992
Uses Greek data for 1981 and 1985 to test screening hypothesis by replicating method proposed by Psacharopoulos. Credentialism, or sheepskin effect of education, directly challenges human capital theory, which views education as a productivity augmenting process. Results do not support the strong version of the screening hypothesis and suggest…
Descriptors: Credentials, Education Work Relationship, Educational Attainment, Elementary Secondary Education
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Black, David C.; Dowd, Michael – Journal of Economic Education, 1994
Asserts that economics students are usually given two descriptions of the money market with the implication that they are consistent with each other. Reviews recent research and presents an asset-substitution model that reconciles the two descriptions of the money market with observed behavior. (CFR)
Descriptors: Banking, Course Content, Economic Factors, Economics Education
Schuman, Patricia Glass – Library Journal, 1998
Argues that recent decisions to outsource library collection development are not isolated incidents but attempts to privatize whole core services and even management of libraries. Examines three misconceptions about the private sector: that it can do it better and cheaper, that accountability to the marketplace is more effective than government,…
Descriptors: Accountability, Cost Effectiveness, Library Administration, Library Collection Development
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Robinson, Maynard; Daigle, Stephen – Planning for Higher Education, 1999
Examines factors underlying the California Educational Technology Initiative (CETI), a failed public-private partnership intended to develop the technology infrastructure of the 23 California State University campuses. Analysis focuses on the necessity for commitment to change by all partners in advance of initiating the partnership venture.…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Higher Education, Long Range Planning, Partnerships in Education
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Woods, Glenys J.; Woods, Philip A. – Journal of Education Policy, 2005
The work presented here follows up the authors' paper, in the previous issue of this journal, which (i) explored modernizing leadership in a public-private partnership, principally from the perspective of the senior managers of a private company contracted to run school support services by a local education authority (LEA), and (ii) suggested that…
Descriptors: Leadership, School Districts, Public Service, Public Sector
Saltman, Kenneth J. – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2004
Many critics do censure marketers of junk food for their part in inundating every private and public space with health-harming products and slick advertisements. The author focuses on one such company to illustrate how the dangerous influences of corporate ideology on schooling effect much more than public health--they also work to shape the ways…
Descriptors: Corporations, Institutional Role, Public Sector, Public Education
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