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Haag, Carl H. – 1978
Some uses of achievement tests to provide information for school administrators are described. Three systematic programs are described briefly: (1) a computer-based approach to management and planning designed to answer what is to be learned, how is it to be learned, and has it been learned; (2) a problem solving design for accountability that…
Descriptors: Accountability, Achievement Tests, Educational Assessment, Educational Objectives
Download full textZeldin, Shepherd; Bogart, Joanne – 1990
This report profiles 15 programs that are providing education and support services to homeless students. These programs have been selected from over 40 nominations from state homeless coordinators and from national organizations concerned with services to the homeless. The profiled programs were selected on the basis of innovative educational…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Community Programs, Cooperative Programs, Educational Innovation
Medrich, Elliot A.; Rubin, Victor – 1983
This collection of seven reports explores the changes in children's services that have been brought about by efforts to limit local spending and taxation, and by unfavorable economic changes. The four states chosen for analysis--California, Massachusetts, Michigan, and New Jersey--represent contrasting economic circumstances and several different…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Economic Change, Economic Factors, Economic Research
Mitchell, George A. – 1988
The financing of Wisconsin's "Chapter 220" program, which is the primary means for implementing the 1988 federal court settlement of a school integration lawsuit, needs to be reformed. Total program costs may triple in 5 years, from about $32.5 million in 1986-87 to $90 million by the 1992-93 school year; per pupil costs could rise from…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Compliance (Legal), Cost Effectiveness, Desegregation Effects
Massachusetts State Dept. of Education, Quincy. – 1990
A conscious strategy for educational reform has guided the 1990 efforts of the Boston/Chelsea (Massachusetts) Urban Team. Elements of the strategy include the following: (1) acknowledging that the individual school, not the state or federal program, is the fundamental unit of education; (2) breaking down the compartmentalization of bilingual,…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Educational Change, Educational Objectives, Educational Policy
Follettie, Joseph F. – 1976
General features of local and national programs for assessing achievements referencing the common instruction are discussed within a single mastery achievement testing framework. The envisioned programs differ only in informative detail. Most such differences are viewed as amenable to formalization and the basis for distinguishing between local…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Achievement Tests, Classification
