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Download full textXiang, Yun; Hauser, Carl – Northwest Evaluation Association, 2010
The purpose of this paper is to offer an analytic perspective to policy makers and educational practitioners regarding how to use longitudinal achievement data to evaluate schools. The authors further discuss the potential practical applications of their models for superintendents, researchers, and policy makers. The premise of the study is that…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Policy Formation, Data Analysis
Direct linkSteele, Jennifer L.; Vernez, Georges; Gottfried, Michael A.; Schwam-Baird, Michael – RAND Corporation, 2011
Hurricane Katrina set the stage for a transformation of public education in New Orleans, replacing the city's existing school system with a decentralized choice-based system of both charter and district-run schools. Using principal, teacher, and parent surveys administered three years after Katrina, this study examined schools' governance and…
Descriptors: Traditional Schools, Charter Schools, School Choice, School Personnel
Klau, Kenneth – Council of Chief State School Officers, 2010
State educational accountability models are in transition. Whether modifying the present accountability system to comply with existing state and federal requirements or anticipating new ones--such as the U.S. Department of Education's (ED) Race to the Top competition--recording the experiences of state education agencies (SEAs) that are currently…
Descriptors: State Departments of Education, Politics of Education, Accountability, Models
Peer reviewedWalpole, MaryBeth, Ed. – ASHE Higher Education Report, 2007
This volume examines conceptual frameworks and models that flow from scholars' definitions and operationalizations of social class: status attainment theory, human capital theory, the financial nexus model, Bourdieuian theory, and critical race theory. Since students often have multiple social locations that affect their educational process, the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Access to Education, Human Capital, Definitions
Istance, David, Ed.; Schuetze, Hans G., Ed.; Schuller, Tom, Ed. – 2002
This book, consisting of 17 chapters written by different authors, traces the progress that has been made in developing lifelong learning policies over the past 30 years and examines current challenges to lifelong learning policymakers. Focusing on a global agenda, the book is organized in six parts with thematic chapters following an introductory…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Communication (Thought Transfer)
