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Direct linkCarroll, Stephen J.; Erkut, Emre – RAND Corporation, 2009
Meeting the educational demands of the future will be expensive; however, in most states, public schools from kindergarten through the university level already experience budgetary challenges. Policymakers face the challenge of motivating taxpayers to provide the funds needed to meet mounting education needs. In this volume, Carroll and Erkut…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Community Benefits, Educational Benefits, Tax Effort
Download full textMayton, Daniel M. – 1989
Values are a central concept in understanding and predicting human behavior. Value priority differences have been shown to predict important political, social, and economic attitudes and behaviors. The purpose of this study was to identify differences and similarities among the value hierarchies of adolescents who have never tried alcohol,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Alcohol Abuse, Differences, Drinking
Stahl, Virginia V.; Pavel, D. Michael – 1992
The Bean and Metzner Nontraditional Undergraduate Student Attrition Model appeared to be a good model to address community college student attrition because it takes into account the environmental variables that colleges must consider to enhance persistence. A study was conducted to determine how well the Bean and Metzner Model fit with community…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Community Colleges, Models, Predictive Validity
Tadlock, James; Nesbit, Lamar – 1984
The Jackson Municipal Separate School District, Mississippi, has instituted a mixed-criteria reduction-in-force procedure emphasizing classroom performance to a greater degree than seniority, certification, and staff development participation. The district evaluation process--measuring classroom teaching performance--generated data for the present…
Descriptors: Analysis of Covariance, Elementary Secondary Education, Employment Practices, Evaluation Methods
Gorman, Steven; Yu, Ching C. – 1990
The relationship between student's home environment and achievement in science was examined using data from the 1985-86 National Assessment of Educational Progress, Science Assessment, for a nationally representative sample of American school age children in grades 7 and 11. Science achievement and background data were also collected for grade 3.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Attainment, Family Environment, Family Involvement
McCoy, Kay R. – 1991
Drawing from studies conducted at Prince George's Community College (PGCC) between 1989 and 1991, this report offers a profile of developmental students at PGCC and an analysis of the remedial education needs of fall 1990 first-time students. The first section of the report reviews findings from a number of statewide and institutional studies…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Basic Skills, College Role
