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Direct linkRoza, Marguerite – Phi Delta Kappan, 2022
School district leaders are responsible for managing million-dollar budgets, but many have received little or no training in education finance. Marguerite Roza discusses a recent analysis of administrator preparation programs that revealed startling gaps in content, including a tendency to focus on revenue in their finance education, instead of on…
Descriptors: School District Spending, School Districts, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education
Brodinsky, Ben – Phi Delta Kappan, 1977
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Criterion Referenced Tests, Elementary Education, Graduation Requirements
Posner, David – Phi Delta Kappan, 2002
Argues the schools need to prepare students with trained minds and a proclivity for creative efforts to be successful in the technology-oriented society of the 21st century. Suggests the current educational policies will not accomplish those objectives. (PKP)
Descriptors: Computation, Elementary Secondary Education, Skills, Technology
Bassett, Patrick F. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2005
There is a growing consensus among members of the corporate community, university professors, and informed educators regarding the skills needed for success in college and in the marketplace. According to the Business-Higher Education Forum, "today's high-performance job market requires graduates to be proficient in such cross-functional skills…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Quality, Skills, Success
Brickell, Henry M. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1978
There is a great deal to think about in a minimum competency program: What competencies? How to measure? When to measure? One minimum or many? How high the minimum? Minimums for students or for schools? What to do with the incompetent? (Author/IRT)
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Criterion Referenced Tests
Nathan, Joe; Jennings, Wayne – Phi Delta Kappan, 1978
Explores such myths as competency-based graduation requirements are a repudiation of humanistic concerns, the public won't accept subjective measures of competence, and requiring students to pass proficiency tests before graduation will increase public support for education. Offers suggestions for developing new kinds of graduation requirements.…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Competency Based Education, Elementary Secondary Education
Schab, Fred – Phi Delta Kappan, 1978
A survey of teachers, students, administrators, and parents in Georgia shows a wide diversity of opinion regarding the levels of reading, writing, listening, speaking, and arithmetic skills that should be required for high school graduation. (Author/IRT)
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Administrator Attitudes, Basic Skills, Competency Based Education
Muirhead, Peter P. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1973
Career education is no longer just a sound idea that needs to be tried, and the first steps have been taken to test its validity in real schools with real students. The school's success or failure with the upcoming generation of young people will become apparent when they enter the labor market. However, career education is felt to be the best…
Descriptors: Administrators, Career Education, Career Planning, Decision Making
Pipho, Chris – Phi Delta Kappan, 1978
Discusses and presents a summary outline of state activity in minimum competency testing as of March 15, 1978. (IRT)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Competency Based Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Minimum Competency Testing
