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Download full textMulholland, Lori A.; Bierlein, Louann – 1993
A charter school is an autonomous entity that operates on the basis of a charter or contract between the individual or group (teachers, parents, and others) that organizes the school and its sponsor (local school board, county, or state board). Once granted a charter, the school receives educational formula-driven funding as though it were a…
Descriptors: Accountability, Decentralization, Educational Innovation, Elementary Secondary Education
Carlos, Lisa; Izu, Jo Ann – Policy Briefs, 1993
Since the 1960s, schools have relied on federal and state programs to provide the extra resources and services needed to help certain categories of disadvantaged students catch up with their classmates. While many credit these categorical programs with expanding educational opportunities, increasing numbers question the effectiveness of this ad…
Descriptors: Accountability, Categorical Aid, Decentralization, Educationally Disadvantaged
Karp, Alan; And Others – History of Higher Education Annual, 1985
This volume of the History of Higher Education Annual contains five articles. Alan Karp's essay, "John Calvin and the Geneva Academy: Roots of the Board of Trustees," discusses the reoganization and government of the Geneva Academy and Calvin's unsuccessful struggle to establish a church independent of lay control. Institutional…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Church Related Colleges, College Presidents, Educational Change
Pioneer Inst. for Public Policy Research, Boston, MA. – 1996
On January 31, 1996, Pioneer Institute Executive Director James A. Peyser delivered an address to the Boston Economic Club, in which he proposed radical reforms to the structure of public education. This publication contains an edited transcript of the speech. The speech argues that after 30 years of stagnation and decline, only fundamental…
Descriptors: Bureaucracy, Capitalism, Charter Schools, Competition
Zemsky, Robert, Ed. – Policy Perspectives, 1999
This essay reports on a roundtable of higher education leaders, association heads, government officials, and public policy experts that examined the changes in policymakers' attitudes toward federally sponsored research. Since World War II national science policy has made universities the principal locus of basic research in the United States. But…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Educational Research, Federal Aid, Federal Programs
Selvaratnam, Viswanathan – 1994
This report provides an overview of Singapore's strategy for human resource development and the country's concerted effort to successfully orchestrate the many separate initiatives between 1960s to 1980s into an effective market-driven, three-tiered higher education system emphasizing technology and modernization. The study highlights the…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Educational History, Educational Quality, Educational Trends
