This document contains a directory of Catholic elementary and secondary schools in the United States, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands, as well as tables of historical statistics on such topics as the number of Catholic schools, the enrollment in Catholic elementary and secondary schools, the number of lay teachers, and the number of…

The structure and support of Canadian elementary and secondary education is presented with concise descriptions of its organizational structure, administration, curriculum, and special programs. This general overview is appended with organizational charts; directories of provincial, territorial, and federal departments of education; and national…

This paper examines the feasibility of distributing Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title I aid among school districts according to the educational achievement of pupils in each district. The "predicted achievement method" would permit the distribution of aid on the basis of population characteristics in a way that, on average,…

This is a revised and expanded descriptive guide and directory to bilingual-bicultural educational programs funded during FY 1973-74 through Title VII of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended. There are 211 projects, in 32 states and territories, in which 26 languages are taught. The programs operate in the various…

In the first section of this study, arguments for and against reward for local effort are presented along with brief summaries of some previous empirical studies on the subject. The second and third sections describe the methodology and the findings of a new empirical study that investigated the determinates of tax rate change in Illinois before…