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Cost-Effectiveness of a Statistics-Based Approach to Developmental Mathematics Education
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Matthew Finster; Jill Feldman – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2023
Due to the low success of traditional, postsecondary remediation mathematics, The Maryland Mathematics Reform Initiative First in the World Grant (MMRI-FITW) sought to develop and implement a statistics pathway in 2- and 4-year institutions as an alternative to traditional algebra-based math, to accelerate developmental mathematics students'…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Mathematics Instruction, Statistics Education, Remedial Instruction
The Costs of Experience Corps[R] in Public Schools
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Frick, Kevin D.; McGill, Sylvia; Tan, Erwin J.; Rebok, George W.; Carson, Michelle C.; Tanner, Elizabeth K.; Fried, Linda P. – Educational Gerontology, 2012
Objective: To describe the annual operational costs of a mature Experience Corps[R] program in elementary schools in the Baltimore City Public School System. Methods: Systematic records of expenditures kept by the community partner, Greater Homewood Community Corporation, to be reported to funders were made available for analysis. Expenditures…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, School Personnel, Elementary Schools, Older Adults
Closing the "Digital Divide": Building a Public Computing Center
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Krebeck, Aaron – Computers in Libraries, 2010
The public computing center offers an economical and environmentally friendly model for providing additional public computer access when and where it is needed. Though not intended to be a replacement for a full-service branch, the public computing center does offer a budget-friendly option for quickly expanding high-demand services into the…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Public Libraries, Computer Centers, Community Information Services
Building Leadership Capacity on a Budget
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Andes, Laurie – AASA Journal of Scholarship & Practice, 2009
Since September 2002, business leaders and educators have been examining the differences in business and educational leadership in a professional development partnership, titled, The Academy for Leadership in Education (ALE). This organization was created as a program to encourage the study of leadership and develop the capacity for mentoring new…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Transformational Leadership, Instructional Leadership, Educational Cooperation
Beaming Your School into the 21st Century.
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Pfeifer, R. Scott; Robb, Rick – Principal Leadership, 2001
Mindsurf Networks--a partnership involving a suburban Baltimore high school, Sylvan Ventures, and Aether Systems--provides a cutting-edge, reasonably priced, networked mobile computing platform for learning. Handheld computers help students solve problems and beam information to teachers and each other. Partnership initiation strategies for…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Cost Effectiveness, High Schools, Partnerships in Education
Regional Plan for the Development of Public Education in Appalachian Maryland, August 1, 1977. Revised.
Regional Education Service Agency of Appalachian Maryland, Cumberland. – 1978
Eight public educational institutions serving three counties of Appalachian Maryland (Allegany, Garrett, Washington) have joined together to plan and develop public education on a regional basis in order to: (1) raise the overall quality of education; (2) broaden curricula to meet regional economic needs, especially at post-secondary level; (3)…
Descriptors: Accountability, Agency Cooperation, Agency Role, Communications Satellites