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Robelen, Erik W. – Education Week, 2006
This article describes opinions about what ails U.S. schools. The Thomas B. Fordham Foundation has a lot to say about education in the United States--what's wrong with it and how to fix it. A national authority on charters and an unabashed champion of the idea, the Fordham Foundation is getting a grounding in reality and appears to be the only…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Accountability, Educational Improvement, Grants
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Zurer, Pamela S. – Chemical and Engineering News, 1990
Reorganization in the National Science Foundation's science education section is discussed. Personnel changes and changes in funding in 1990 are emphasized. (CW)
Descriptors: Chemistry, College Science, Educational Finance, Educational Improvement
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Chemical and Engineering News, 1990
Reported is an effort to train mathematics and science teachers in Chicago, Illinois, to integrate mathematics and science and to concentrate on hands-on science participation. Support for the Academy for Mathematics and Science Teachers is discussed. (CW)
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education, Experiential Learning
Thistlethwaite, Frank – 1980
The chairman's report to the Inter-University Council for Higher Education Overseas covers financial outlays, expenditure cuts and program assistance ventures conducted with British government approval to educationally impoverished areas in Africa, the Caribbean, the Far East and other locales during 1978-79. The chairman argues that the IUC's…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Cooperative Programs, Costs, Developing Nations
Hirsch, Lesley; Applewhite-Coney, Erain – Education Law Center, 2005
Camden is one of 31 urban school districts in New Jersey known as Abbott districts. As an Abbott district, Camden receives funding to equalize its per student general education budget with the most successful suburban districts in the state. Through a series of indicators, the Camden Abbott Indicators Report presents the status of educational…
Descriptors: Educational Facilities, Educational Improvement, Outcomes of Education, Educational Policy
Hirsch, Lesley; Applewhite-Coney, Erain – Education Law Center, 2005
Newark is one of 31 urban school districts in New Jersey known as Abbott districts. As an Abbott district, Newark receives funding to equalize its per student general education budget with the most successful suburban districts in the state. Through a series of indicators, the Newark Abbott Indicators Report presents the status of educational…
Descriptors: Educational Facilities, Educational Improvement, Outcomes of Education, Educational Policy
Hirsch, Lesley; Applewhite-Coney, Erain – Education Law Center, 2005
Trenton is one of 31 urban school districts in New Jersey known as Abbott districts. As an Abbott district, Trenton receives funding to equalize its per student general education budget with the most successful suburban districts in the state. Through a series of indicators, the Trenton Abbott Indicators Report presents the status of educational…
Descriptors: Educational Facilities, Educational Improvement, Outcomes of Education, Educational Policy
Hirsch, Lesley; Applewhite-Coney, Erain – Education Law Center, 2005
Union City is one of 31 urban school districts in New Jersey known as Abbott districts. As an Abbott district, Union City receives funding to equalize its per student general education budget with the most successful suburban districts in the state. Through a series of indicators, the Union City Abbott Indicators Report presents the status of…
Descriptors: Educational Facilities, Educational Improvement, Outcomes of Education, Educational Policy
Hirsch, Lesley; Applewhite-Coney, Erain – Education Law Center, 2005
Camden is one of 31 urban school districts in New Jersey known as Abbott districts. As an Abbott district, Camden receives funding to equalize its per student general education budget with the most successful suburban districts in the state. Through a series of indicators, the Camden Abbott Indicators Report presents the status of educational…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Educational Facilities, Educational Improvement, Outcomes of Education
Hirsch, Lesley; Applewhite-Coney, Erain – Education Law Center, 2005
Newark is one of 31 urban school districts in New Jersey known as Abbott districts. As an Abbott district, Newark receives funding to equalize its per student general education budget with the most successful suburban districts in the state. Through a series of indicators, the Newark Abbott Indicators Report presents the status of educational…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Educational Facilities, Educational Improvement, Outcomes of Education
Hirsch, Lesley; Applewhite-Coney, Erain – Education Law Center, 2005
Trenton is one of 31 urban school districts in New Jersey known as Abbott districts. As an Abbott district, Trenton receives funding to equalize its per student general education budget with the most successful suburban districts in the state. Through a series of indicators, the Trenton Abbott Indicators Report presents the status of educational…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Educational Facilities, Educational Improvement, Outcomes of Education
Applewhite-Coney, Erain; Hirsch, Lesley – Education Law Center, 2005
Union City is one of 31 urban school districts in New Jersey known as Abbott districts. As an Abbott district, Union City receives funding to equalize its per student general education budget with the most successful suburban districts in the state. Through a series of indicators, the Union City Abbott Indicators Report presents the status of…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Educational Facilities, Educational Improvement, Outcomes of Education
Ponessa, Joan; Boylan, Ellen – Education Law Center, 2004
This report on preschool facilities analyzes regulations proposed by the New Jersey Department of Education (NJDOE) to implement the Educational Facilities Construction and Financing Act. (EFCFA). EFCFA, which authorizes and governs New Jersey's public school construction program, was enacted in July 2000 to implement the State Supreme Court's…
Descriptors: Educational Facilities Planning, Preschool Education, School Construction, Construction Programs
Ponessa, Joan – Education Law Center, 2004
This report on Long Range Facilities Plans (LRFPs) analyzes regulations proposed by the New Jersey Department of Education (NJDOE) to implement the Educational Facilities Construction and Financing Act. (EFCFA). EFCFA, which authorizes and governs New Jersey's public school construction program, was enacted in July 2000 to implement the State…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Educational Facilities Planning, School Construction, Construction Programs