This report presents trends on the implementation of Title I parental choice options from the National Longitudinal Study of No Child Left Behind (NLS-NCLB) and the Study of State Implementation of Accountability and Teacher Quality Under No Child Left Behind (SSI-NCLB). The report uses data from state-level interviews; surveys of a nationally…

In 2007, the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges amended its Title 5 Regulations to grant conditional approval to proposals for educational centers if certain criteria were met at the time of submission. Among other requirements, a district would need to demonstrate that a proposed center would serve at least 500 full-time…

This paper attempts to analyse how governments in Malaysia and Thailand have adopted indirect policy instruments along the lines of "corporatisation" and "privatisation" to reform higher education governance. By focusing on a few key issues related to changing state and education relationships and new regulatory arrangements…

The Grant Wood Area Education Agency (GWAEA) is a regional education service agency centered in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, serving 39 public school districts and 36 private school districts in a seven-county area. Area education agencies (AEA) in Iowa are separate legal entities, not arms of the State Department or the school districts who decide to join…

The New York Workshop Center for Open Education, though primarily serving adults, is also utilized by children for independent activities or during workshops with adult participants. Some of the activities are mentioned. (EC)

In conjunction with the ERIC Clearinghouse on Library and Information Science's sponsored seminar at the University of Maryland School of Library and Information Services on "The Marketing of Information Analysis Products," a mailed questionnaire survey was conducted to investigate the information problems and needs of people who are…

Article discusses the way in which the educational activities of zoos have developed in recent years. (Editor)

A full service educational data processing center has been serving the data processing needs of the local schools and intermediate agencies for 16 years without interruption. (Author/MLF)

Many reasons are cited for the failure of Western-based schooling in reference to Native American youth. Presents and discusses three different "service learning" schools which utilize the value system and integrated learning approach of traditional Native American education: Acoma Pueblo, Zuni Pueblo, and the National Indian Youth…

As a growing number of schools and districts are found to be underperforming under the requirements of NCLB, school and district administrators are increasingly searching for research-based whole school improvement programs, including comprehensive school reform (CSR) models and education service providers (ESPs), in order to create dramatic…

The Los Rios Community College District has proposed to convert its Davis outreach operations to a single, state-approved educational center. The proposal responds to the district's need to expand educational services in the Davis area. The area is marked by high student demand and limited instructional facilities. In the 2006-07 academic year,…

The effects that the state-funded Illinois Regional Area Service Centers have had on education generally and on teacher behavior specifically were analyzed, and a comparison was made with data gathered on the forerunner institution--the demonstration center. In both cases, teachers were asked to write an example of a change that occurred as a…