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Beatrice L. Bridglall; Jade Caines; Madhabi Chatterji – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2014
Purpose: This policy brief, the second AERI-NEPC eBrief in the series "Understanding validity issues around the world", focuses on validity as it applies to test-based models of evaluation employed for schools, instructional programs, and teachers around the world. It discusses validity issues that could arise when data from student…
Descriptors: Quality Assurance, Educational Quality, Validity, Academic Achievement
Miron, Gary; Urschel, Jessica – Education Policy Research Unit, 2009
This is the second "Profiles" report to examine nonprofit education management organizations (EMOs). This report is modeled after the 11 annual "Profiles" that cover for-profit EMOs. While the number of schools operated by for-profit EMOs grew rapidly in the 1990s and is now leveling off, the number of schools operated by nonprofit EMOs has been…
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Profiles, Nonprofit Organizations, State Surveys
Ramsey, Jennifer – Institute for Higher Education Policy, 2008
Increasing competitiveness in today's globalized and knowledge-based economy demands college-educated professionals. Creating an adequate number of college-educated professionals requires an investment in human capital, particularly in postsecondary education. In fact, six out of every 10 jobs in the United States involve advanced skills that can…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Attendance, Scholarships, Low Income Groups
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Mediratta, Kavitha – Theory Into Practice, 2007
Community organizing for school reform is a growing national phenomenon, as young people, parents, neighborhood residents, and faith-based institutions struggle to improve the quality and equity of public schooling, particularly in urban school districts. Now a decade old, community organizing projects are influencing local public schools in…
Descriptors: Educational Change, School Restructuring, Public Education, Community Organizations
Sykes, Gary, Ed.; Schneider, Barbara, Ed.; Plank, David N., Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2009
Educational policy continues to be of major concern. Policy debates about economic growth and national competitiveness, for example, commonly focus on the importance of human capital and a highly educated workforce. Defining the theoretical boundaries and methodological approaches of education policy research are the two primary themes of this…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Economic Progress, Graduate Students, Higher Education
Holmlund, Helena – Centre for the Economics of Education (NJ1), 2008
When studying different types of returns to education, educational reforms are commonly used in the economics literature as a source of exogenous variation in education. The Swedish compulsory school reform is one example; the reform extended compulsory education throughout the country, in different municipalities at different points in time. Such…
Descriptors: School Restructuring, Compulsory Education, Outcomes of Education, Educational Attainment