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Belfield, Clive R.; Brooks Bowden, A.; Shand, Robert S. – Policy Analysis for California Education, PACE, 2021
California's school system is under tremendous long-run fiscal pressure; allocating resources efficiently is therefore paramount. Economic analysis--making sure districts and schools are spending their budgets wisely--is the method used to identify effectiveness and efficiency. This method responds to the question educational professionals face:…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Decision Making, Economic Research, Elementary Secondary Education
Newman, Elizabeth; Baharav, Hadar – Learning Professional, 2018
In 2014, the close-knit education community in California's rural Humboldt county came together to address the potential to improve students' college readiness and completion. A diverse group of education leaders spanning K-12 through college formed the collaborative, with leadership from the Humboldt County Office of Education. The John W.…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, School Districts, College Readiness, Counties
Moore, Colleen; Schrager, Cynthia; Bracco, Kathy Reeves – Education Insights Center, 2017
This report provides campus and system leaders with a scan of the current state of reform within the California State University (CSU), together with contextual insight into the obstacles and possibilities for broader scale adoption of coordinated, systemic change. Researchers: (1) Reviewed information on evidence-based student success strategies…
Descriptors: State Universities, Student Improvement, Educational Change, Graduation Rate
Aspen Institute, 2018
Ideal for faculty and administrators looking to blend business education and the liberal arts, this toolkit combines exemplary syllabi from 26 leading institutions with step-by-step strategies to advocate successfully for curricular innovation. Conceived with comprehensiveness in mind, these resources cover both inspiration and implementation for…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Business Administration Education, Humanities, Liberal Arts
Academic Senate for California Community Colleges, 2019
This paper provides information about noncredit instruction in the California Community Colleges and updates the 2009 paper "Noncredit Instruction: Opportunity and Challenge" to incorporate subsequent changes from the last decade. Since the passage of SB 361 (Scott, 2006), noncredit instruction has seen significant changes, including the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Noncredit Courses, Educational Finance, Misconceptions
Senger, Karen – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Purpose: The purposes of this study were to investigate and describe how elementary teachers in exited Program Improvement-Safe Harbor schools acquire student achievement data through assessments, the strategies and reflections utilized to make sense of the data to improve student achievement, ensure curriculum and instructional goals are aligned,…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Data Analysis, Data, Decision Making
Brown, Dave F. – Middle Grades Research Journal, 2011
Curriculum integration is defined as students choosing topics to study based on their questions. Several middle schools throughout the United States offer students the opportunity to develop the curriculum during the year based on their questions about themselves and about the world. The author provides the rationale, the developmental reasons…
Descriptors: Integrated Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Middle School Students, Student Centered Curriculum
Vanasupa, Linda – Advances in Engineering Education, 2011
This paper represents a narrative of the process of department-level reform through the eyes of the initiating agent of change. Over the course of reform, our program has grown by 40%, primarily through retaining students. We exhibit a 10% net important rate of engineering students in the first two years of the curriculum relative to the college's…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Departments, Change Agents, Engineering Education
Donaldson, Rebecca Jane – ProQuest LLC, 2012
States have been given flexibility under No Child Left Behind to create need-driven comprehensive school improvement plans with an approved accountability system, however those unable to show increased student learning will be deemed as failing. Schools labeled as failing require a comprehensive framework for improvement. Research has identified a…
Descriptors: School Turnaround, Case Studies, Failure, Educational Improvement
Levin, Barbara B.; Schrum, Lynne – Journal of School Leadership, 2014
The purpose of this article is to describe lessons learned from studying the leadership in eight award-winning secondary schools and districts that were recognized for successfully leveraging technology as part of their efforts for school improvement. Data were collected through observations, interviews, and document analysis in schools and…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Technology Uses in Education, Improvement Programs, Leadership

Jewett, Frank I.; And Others – 1970
This paper reports on a project undertaken at Humboldt State College, California, to estimate the coefficients of the so-called "induced course load matrix," perhaps the single most vital component of some models that are being developed to aid administrative planning and decisionmaking in institutions of higher education. Chapter I, the…
Descriptors: Courses, Curriculum Development, Decision Making, Higher Education
Gray, James; And Others – California Journal of Teacher Education, 1978
The current danger in curriculum development is the emphasis on "who decides" to the exclusion of any emphasis on "what to teach"; effective reform programs, such as the Bay Area Writing Project, emphasize course content. (JD)
Descriptors: Course Content, Curriculum Development, Decision Making, Student Centered Curriculum

California Council for the Social Studies. – 1991
Developed for California high school teachers, this guide is designed to help them clarify the role of the state government and improve students' understanding of the democratic process through their acquisition of knowledge, skills and attitudes. The guide provides the tools necessary to help students inform themselves about: current economic,…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Curriculum Development, Decision Making, High Schools
Andersen, Beth; Klein, Frances – 1990
Klein's conceptual framework of curriculum decision making is applied to the site-based decision making process in a suburban California school district. The model is composed of two interacting dimensions: participants at different levels and curriculum elements. Three levels of decision making--formal, institutional, and instructional--are…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Decentralization, Elementary Secondary Education
California Association for the Gifted. – 1980
Intended for use by educators and parents, the workbook is intended to help in the development or expansion of programs for the gifted and talented as required by the California Education Code's AB 1040, effective from 1980 to 1985. After introductory material, the first section provides a detailed interpretive analysis of AB 1040 noting the…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Curriculum Development, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education
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