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The French Zones d'Education Prioritaire: Much Ado about Nothing?
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Benabou, Roland; Kramarz, Francis; Prost, Corinne – Economics of Education Review, 2009
We provide an assessment of the French ZEP (Zones d'Education Prioritaire), a program started in 1982 that channels additional resources to schools in disadvantaged areas and encourages the development of new teaching projects. Focusing on middle-schools, we first evaluate the impact of the ZEP status on resources, their utilization (teacher…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Program Effectiveness, Federal Programs, Program Evaluation
Perspectives on the Structure of American Agriculture. Volume II: Federal Farm Policies--Their Effects on Low-Income Farmers and Rural Communities.
Coughlin, Kenneth M., Ed. – 1980
Agriculture and farming are the economic context for rural education. This is the second of two volumes of papers describing the impact of national agricultural policy on the poor. The nine articles in this volume (shot-titled below) analyze federal policy from the standpoint of the low-income farmer: (1) "Agricultural Price Supports,"…
Descriptors: Agribusiness, Agricultural Trends, Agriculture, Disadvantaged Environment
Statement of Dr. Randall J. Olsen, Professor of Economics, Ohio State University, before the Subcommittee on Social Security and Family Policy, Senate Finance Committee, United States Senate.
Olsen, Randall J. – 1991
In order to study the persistence of poverty across generations with a view to developing or monitoring cross-generational poverty-reduction policies, social indicators to track dependency and deprivation of children are needed. Available data on the dependency and deprivation of children primarily describe the following characteristics of the…
Descriptors: Children, Data Collection, Disadvantaged Environment, Disadvantaged Youth