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Han, Jiye Grace; Barrett, Sharon Kebschull – Public Impact, 2013
This case study reports on the work of Denise Watts, who in 2011 was the newly named Project L.I.F.T. executive director and a Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools zone superintendent. She approached Public Impact for help in meeting the new Project L.I.F.T. (Leadership and Investment for Transformation) goals. Facing urgent needs for real change, Watts…
Descriptors: Case Studies, School Effectiveness, Educational Improvement, Program Design
Travers, Jonathan; Christiansen, Barbara – Aspen Institute, 2010
There's a lot of work happening all over the country to "turnaround" schools. Federal stimulus programs, including Title 1 Improvement Grants and Race to the Top, have caused many states and school systems to focus on how to address schools trapped in a cycle of failure and "turn them around." On the school level, there are…
Descriptors: School Districts, Instructional Leadership, Educational Improvement, Systems Approach
Goossens, J. L. M.; And Others – 1971
A method to calculate the need for academic staff per faculty, based on educational programs and numbers of students, is described which is based on quantitative relations between programs, student enrollment, and total budget. The model is described schematically and presented in a mathematical form adapted to computer processing. Its application…
Descriptors: College Administration, Conference Reports, Data Processing, Educational Policy
Tracz, George S. – 1974
The purpose of this bibliography, which contains over 300 references, is to provide information to educational researchers and officials involved in issues related to teaching staff manpower and salaries. The material listed here was collected in the process of initiating and running a large scale systems study on Teacher Cost Models, and of…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Educational Planning, Educational Research, Educational Researchers
Strevell, Wallace H. – 1972
Each of 16 authors treats a technical aspect of preconstruction planning in this bulletin. Application of systems logic appears in the organization of the chapters. The problem is defined as a survey procedure in chapters discussing the school business official, planning terminology, and staff structure. Variations of objective synthesis are…
Descriptors: Campus Planning, Construction Needs, Educational Facilities, Educational Finance
Joint Univ. Libraries, Nashville, TN. Office of Research and Development. – 1972
The Joint University Libraries (JUL) of Nashville, Tennessee have found that as they become increasingly complex they must make optimum use of their resources. In 1972, JUL initiated a planning effort, called Comprehensive Organizational/Operational Planning (CO/OP), designed to provide information for intelligent management decisions. Policy…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Cost Effectiveness, Decision Making, Library Planning