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McMurrer, Jennifer; McIntosh, Shelby – Center on Education Policy, 2012
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), also known as the stimulus package, appropriated $100 billion for education and included $3 billion for school improvement grants (SIGs) to help reform low-performing schools. This amount was in addition to the $546 million provided by the regular fiscal year 2009 appropriations bill for…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Programs, Educational Change, State Departments of Education
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Ambrose, Don – Gifted Child Quarterly, 1998
Presents a three-dimensional model for clarifying and expanding the conceptual foundations of gifted education that emphasizes different world views, movement toward soft sciences, and different levels of analysis. Barriers that cause fragmentation and insularity in conceptual foundations are discussed, and recommendations for breaking through…
Descriptors: Educational Principles, Educational Theories, Elementary Secondary Education, Gifted
Newlove, Beulah W.; Hall, Gene E. – 1976
One simple and straightforward way to learn about individuals' concerns about an educational innovation is to ask them to respond to the question, "When you think about (the innovation), what are you concerned about?" This manual is intended to aid school officials in analyzing these open-ended concerns statements in order to effectively assess…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Educational Innovation, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
Bernal, Helen H.; And Others – 1977
An external evaluation of a subprogram of the Experimental Schools Program called the Edgewood School Plan, this study attempted to discover the extent to which educational changes can be accurately explained and forecast. A model was constructed containing the three explanatory variables of conditions, decisions, and effects and the criterion…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Adoption (Ideas), Decision Making, Educational Change
Terry, Paul M. – 1993
This study was conducted to compare the attitudes of Arkansas elementary and secondary school principals toward the Madeline Hunter clinical supervision model "Program for Effective Teaching (PET)." A survey instrument titled "Attitudes of Principals Toward PET" was mailed to every elementary and secondary public school…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Responsibility, Clinical Supervision (of Teachers), Comparative Analysis
Manning, Alton C. – 1987
This booklet provides information on developing and implementing a school-business relationship through its description of a successful partnership program in the Springfield, Missouri, Public Schools. The guide is organized in seven sections. The first section provides a rationale for school-business partnerships, and the second section explains…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Education Work Relationship, Elementary Secondary Education, Guidelines
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Keeves, John P. – International Journal of Educational Research, 1986
Five statistical techniques were used to analyze the data collected in a previous article (TM 511 223) on student achievement, attention, and motivation in secondary school mathematics and science: ordinary least squares regression, canonical correlation, factorial modeling, partial least squares path analysis, and linear structural relations…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attention, Elementary Secondary Education, Factor Analysis