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Lewis, Steven – Comparative Education, 2017
This paper examines the development and administration of Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) for Schools--a new testing instrument of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development--to demonstrate the relevance of heterarchical processes to educational governance. Drawing suggestively across new "relational"…
Descriptors: Governance, Educational Administration, Administrative Organization, Achievement Tests
Collins, Charles C.; Case, Chester H. – 1974
At present, community college in-service professional development programs are not top quality. Little, if any, budgetary support is allocated for them, and responsibility for planning and carrying them out is allocated to no one in particular. The few on-site in-service professional development programs now in operation exhibit common elements…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, College Faculty, Inservice Education
Giloth, Robert; Phillips, William – 2000
The Anne E. Casey Foundation (AECF) funded replications of effective jobs projects to achieve better job placement and retention for low-income, young adults. The six projects funded, collectively called the Jobs Initiative (JI), in Denver, Milwaukee, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Seattle, and St. Louis, used an outcomes framework developed by The…
Descriptors: Employment Programs, Evaluation Methods, Institutional Cooperation, Job Placement
Dunham, Franklin; Lowdermilk, Ronald R.; Broderick, Gertrude G. – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1957
Educational television has made great strides in the five years which have elapsed since the Federal Communications Commission set aside television channels for the exclusive use of education. Such stations are located in 29 communities of the United States, representing large cities, university centers and, in several instances, serving entire…
Descriptors: Educational History, Educational Television, Adult Education, Higher Education