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Kassebaum, Nancy Landon – American Psychologist, 1994
Senator Kassebaum introduces the Head Start Quality Improvement Act which aims at building on the success of Head Start by connecting an increased budget with measures designed to improve program quality. The five-pronged approach of the legislation also mandates increased program accountability through performance measures. (SLD)
Descriptors: Accountability, Budgeting, Children, Early Childhood Education
Hill, Paul T.; And Others – 1992
This report explores educational accountability in the United States, specifically accountability in vocational education. Section 1 provides a brief overview of the history of evaluation activity in federal educational programs and sets the major accountability, evaluation, and performance provisions of the 1990 Perkins legislation in that…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Legislation, Evaluation Criteria, Federal Legislation
Lewis, Morgan V.; Resch, Susan – 2001
The Workforce Investment Act 1998 (WIA) made major changes in programs for youth from economically disadvantaged families. It mandated program performance indicators. A study examined the new performance indicators and determined whether they were adequate or should be supplemented with involvement of stakeholders concerned about youth programs.…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Planning, Compliance (Legal), Disadvantaged Youth