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Anderson, Steven G. – Child Welfare, 2006
Based on a survey of public assistance and child welfare agency staff, this article examines how state Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) policy decisions have affected kinship care providers. Findings indicate that most states have continued using TANF to provide income support to kinship caregivers, and some have used TANF to find…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Family Programs, Surveys, Child Welfare
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Koptseva, O. A. – Russian Education and Society, 2006
In today's Russia, the young people's and children's movement is quite widespread. There are more than 400,000 young people's and children's civic organizations on the different territorial levels. A survey was carried out in the city of Magnitogorsk in 2002 through the efforts of the Young People's Parliament of Leninskii Raion and with the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Youth Programs, Citizen Participation, Young Adults
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Watty, Kim – Quality in Higher Education, 2006
How would you decide on the quality of a higher education institution? Would you (1) ask the academic registrar (or equivalent); (2) look up the most recent quality audit report; or (3) contact the teaching staff directly to discuss their perceptions about the quality of the services provided in their institution? While there is no one correct…
Descriptors: Accounting, College Faculty, Higher Education, Educational Quality
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Van Hook, Jennifer; Brown, Susan K.; Bean, Frank D. – Social Forces, 2006
The Welfare Reform Act of 1996 generally restricted immigrants' eligibility for welfare to those who had naturalized. By increasing the salience of naturalization, the law provides a unique opportunity to examine how social and economic contexts of reception influence immigrants' pursuit of citizenship. This paper summarizes instrumental-legal…
Descriptors: Welfare Services, Social Environment, Economic Status, Citizenship
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Owings, William A.; Kaplan, Leslie S.; Nunnery, John; Marzano, Robert; Myran, Stephen; Blackburn, David – NASSP Bulletin, 2006
A 2005 national study surveyed 2,103 Troops to Teachers (T3) program completers and their school administrators using 21 research-based instructional practices and four effective classroom management strategies associated with increased student achievement to determine whether T3s were more effective in the classroom than traditionally prepared…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, National Surveys, Principals, Educational Practices
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Fishburne, John W.; Brown, Janice M. – Journal of Alcohol and Drug Education, 2006
This exploratory study was designed to compare several commonly used measures of alcohol use among college students in order to appreciate how estimations of college drinking may be affected by the type of assessment tool used. Consumption patterns of 42 college student drinkers were compared using a quantity-frequency measure, a graduated…
Descriptors: Drinking, Undergraduate Students, Alcohol Abuse, Computation
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Gilley, Ann; Gilley, Jerry W. – College and University, 2006
Student privacy and confidentiality are protected by the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA), also known as the Buckley Amendment. Among the four specific rights granted to students who have reached the age of eighteen or who attend a postsecondary institution, "consent to disclosure of records" is the most commonly…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Student Records, Student Rights, Federal Legislation
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Hood, Lisa; Hunt, Erika; Haeffele, Lynne M. – Planning and Changing, 2009
A significant number of students transfer from one college to another each year, and historically this has created challenges for students striving to attain their higher education goals. The purpose of this study was to inform state articulation policy by collecting qualitative data to characterize issues that affect students as they transfer…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Articulation (Education), State Policy, Transfer Policy
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Bartha, Krisztina; Fóris-Ferenczi, Rita – Acta Didactica Napocensia, 2009
The following study interprets the results of a research carried out in 2008 in Romania, on a smaller sample. The aim of the study is the analysis of the text comprehension skills of 14 year old pupils, and the presentation of the connections with the social background, learning styles and school performance. The gathering of the data was…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Cognitive Style, Reading Comprehension, Reading Skills
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Braley, Richard; Slate, John R.; Cavazos, Jose – International Journal of Educational Leadership Preparation, 2009
These researchers analyzed the perceptions of parents of students determined to be at-risk about their involvement with their children. Parents (n = 229), predominantly Hispanic, were surveyed from elementary schools, middle schools, and high schools in a district in South Texas near the Texas-Mexico border. Quantitative data obtained from the…
Descriptors: Parents, Parent Attitudes, At Risk Students, Academic Achievement
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Ward, Chris; Yates, Dan; Song, Joon – American Journal of Business Education, 2009
This study examined the extent to which student engagement is associated with a traditional assessment of student knowledge. In this study, ETS Business Major Field Test (MFT) scores were compared to student's self-reported survey responses to specific questions on the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE). Areas of the NSSE survey such as…
Descriptors: Pilot Projects, Learner Engagement, Business, Business Skills
OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2009
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development's (OECD's) Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) surveys, which take place every three years, have been designed to collect information about 15-year-old students in participating countries. PISA examines how well students are prepared to meet the challenges of the future,…
Descriptors: Policy Formation, Scaling, Academic Achievement, Interrater Reliability
Berryhill, Kathy S. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
School district administrator openings are occurring across Texas and many other states at an increasing rate. The high rate of turnover in the superintendency has become a national problem. Texas was chosen for the study due to the total number of school districts in the state and the high percent of rural districts. The other selected states,…
Descriptors: Principals, Job Satisfaction, Focus Groups, Academic Achievement
Lin, Hsien Hong – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The purpose of this investigation was to build the blueprint of Taiwanese public higher education's fundraising. This study applied three surveys (NSH, NSC, and NSF) to three populations' samples (public universities, corporations, and foundations in Taiwan) as well as qualitative interviews toward these three populations in order to explore…
Descriptors: Fund Raising, Higher Education, Investigations, Universities
US Census Bureau, 2009
Every five years, the U.S. Census Bureau conducts a Census of Government Finance, as authorized by law under Title 13, U.S. Code, Section 182. The 2007 Census, similar to annual surveys and censuses of governments conducted for many years, covers the entire range of government finance activities--revenue, expenditure, debt, and assets (cash and…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Public Education, Census Figures, National Surveys
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