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Roza, Marguerite; Hagan, Katherine – Building State Capacity and Productivity Center, 2017
Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) requires all states to collect and report school-level expenditure information, state education agencies (SEAs) are considering whether to set statewide rules for local education agencies (LEAs) around how to assign expenditures. Specifically, many states are wondering whether they need to standardize a practice…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Costs, Expenditure per Student, Data Collection
Robson, Kelly; Squire, Juliet; Graziano, Lynne – Bellwether Education Partners, 2019
Doing more with less is noble in public education. This is something quality public charter schools do well. It is also something, that cash-strapped rural and high need schools across Idaho know all too well themselves. It is well documented that all of public education in Idaho operates on leaner rations than do schools in most parts of the…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Public Schools, School Funds, Educational Facilities
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Wagner, Daniel A.; Babson, Andrew; Murphy, Katie M. – Current Issues in Comparative Education, 2011
Timely and credible data on student learning has become a global issue in the ongoing effort to improve educational outcomes. With the potential to serve as a powerful diagnostic tool to gauge the overall health and well-being of an educational system, educational assessments have received increasing attention among specialists and the media.…
Descriptors: Low Income, Educational Objectives, Outcomes of Education, Educational Change
Christal, Melodie E.; And Others – 1984
Problems associated with the use of the Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS) data to make institutional comparisons are discussed. It is noted that information collected by HEGIS includes data on enrollment, degrees, finances, employees, libraries, and physical facilities. Attention is directed to the following problems with the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Data Collection, Definitions, Expenditure per Student
Osher, Trina; And Others – 1991
This resource paper describes two recent studies and one report on special education costs and the methodology used in their analyses. Each study and its data source are summarized with a short discussion on the quality of the data and its usefulness and limitations in generating reliable cost estimates for special education. The paper summarizes…
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Costs, Data Analysis, Data Collection
Gainer, William J. – 1987
This report provides testimony on results of a General Accounting Office (GAO) study of Chapter 1 Compensatory Education programs, Chapter 2 Education Block Grant programs, and dropout prevention programs. The report covers the following: (1) Chapter 1 student selection; (2) Chapter 1 fiscal provisions; (3) Chapter 2 data collection and…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Compensatory Education, Data Collection, Dropout Prevention
High/Scope Educational Research Foundation, Ypsilanti, MI. – 1977
Part 1 of the evaluation process for Project Developmental Continuity, this report presents and analyzes data on the utilization of resources during the third year of operation of 12 participating programs. The report is organized into three chapters, preceded by an executive summary and followed by appendices. Chapter 1 gives an overview of the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cost Effectiveness, Data Collection, Definitions
Shields, Regis Anne; Ireland, Nicole; City, Elizabeth; Derderian, Julie; Miles, Karen Hawley – Education Resource Strategies, 2008
This report is one of nine detailed case studies of small urban high schools that served as the foundation for the Education Resource Strategies (ERS) report "Strategic Designs: Lessons from Leading Edge Small Urban High Schools." These nine schools were dubbed "Leading Edge Schools" because they stand apart from other high…
Descriptors: Small Schools, High Schools, Educational Quality, Urban Schools
Carroll, Thomas G.; Fulton, Kathleen; Abercrombie, Karen; Yoon, Irene – National Commission on Teaching and America's Future, 2004
This report provides teachers' views of unequal teaching and learning opportunities that are still common in many of America's public schools. It analyzes the responses of 3,336 public school teachers in California, Wisconsin, and New York who were surveyed by Lou Harris and the Peter Harris Research Group. The findings paint a chilling picture of…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Low Income, Equal Education, Teacher Attitudes