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Illinois Community College Board, 2009
The "Fiscal Year 2008 Illinois Community College System's Performance Report" contains summary information about state and common institutional outcome indicators. External comparative benchmarks are cited whenever possible using the latest available data--national reporting typically trails what is available at the state level.…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, State Standards, Outcomes of Education, Educational Quality
Public Policy Forum, 2008
A survey of 414 child care providers in southeastern Wisconsin reveals that cost as well as low wages and lack of benefits for workers can constrain providers from pursuing improvements to child-care quality. Of survey respondents, approximately half of whom are home-based and half center-based, 13% have at least three of five structural factors…
Descriptors: Wages, Low Income, Achievement Tests, Public Policy
Baker, Josephine C. – Government Accountability Office, 2005
DC has a larger percentage of students in charter schools than any state. To help oversee DC charter schools, Congress established two authorizers--the Board of Education (BOE), which has an Office of Charter Schools responsible for oversight, and the independent Public Charter School Board (PCSB). Congress required the GAO to conduct a study of…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Accountability, Boards of Education, Quality Control
Canadian Council on Learning, 2007
In 2006, the Canadian Council on Learning produced the first national overview of post-secondary education in Canada. The report, "Canadian Post-secondary Education: A Positive Record--An Uncertain Future," identified eight goals and objectives derived from the strategic plans for post-secondary education (PSE) that had been developed by…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Higher Education, Prior Learning, Quality Control
Maryland State Board for Community Colleges, Annapolis. – 1986
This report examines the progress of Maryland's Joint Coordinating Committee for Occupational Education Programs in developing a systematic procedure for the evaluation of the quality of occupational programs in Maryland's community colleges. After presenting the 1976 resolution which established the joint committee of the Maryland State Board for…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Cooperative Planning, Educational Quality, Evaluation Methods