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Matlach, Lauren – Center on Great Teachers and Leaders, 2015
Evaluation studies can provide feedback on implementation, support continuous improvement, and increase understanding of evaluation systems' impact on teaching and learning. Despite the importance of educator evaluation studies, states often need support to prioritize and fund them. Successful studies require expertise, time, and a shared…
Descriptors: Evaluation Research, Evaluation, Teacher Evaluation, State Aid
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Kirwan, William E. – New Directions for Higher Education, 2007
As an enterprise that relies heavily on state funding, public higher education has long seen its support rise and fall with the boom-and-bust cycle of the economy. This chapter examines how the University System of Maryland repositioned itself as a state system able to thrive in an era of permanently diminished resources and perpetually escalating…
Descriptors: Operations Research, Organizational Theories, Organizational Change, Cost Effectiveness
CONSAD Research Corp., Pittsburgh, PA. – 1968
Described is a six-month work program, financed with Library Service and Construction Act funds, which applies systems analysis to public library organization, services, and facilities. The three public library systems of Baltimore City (Enoch Pratt Free Library), Baltimore County, and Anne Arundel County, Maryland are to be studied. Investigated…
Descriptors: Administration, Costs, Decision Making, Evaluation Methods
Hershkowitz, Martin – 1974
A systems analysis of a community educational television (ETV) structure and of community needs was made in three counties of Appalachian Maryland to see whether an ETV system could meet integrated needs of public school students, disadvantaged families, educators, health service groups, police and fire departments, and business/industry across…
Descriptors: Agencies, Agency Cooperation, Business, Costs
Mintrop, Heinrich; MacLellan, Ann Merck; Quintero, Margaret Fee; Kelemen, Matthew – 1999
Accountability systems target effective school management among other key aspects of the school-improvement process that impact teacher performance. In treating this aspect of accountability, it asks, "What do school improvement plans reveal about schools' responses to accountability and probation?" The school-improvement plan…
Descriptors: Accountability, Comparative Analysis, Competency Based Education, Educational Change
Lewis, Morgan V. – 2002
A needs sensing project was conducted to identify the general needs of the field of career and technical education (CTE), dissemination activities, and major forces in the environment judged likely to influence education in the foreseeable future. The need sensing took place with networks developed in regions assigned to the five primary partner…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accountability, Articulation (Education), Competition
Foster, Emery M.; Herlihy, Lester B.; Comstock, Lula M.; Isdell, Julia E.; Choate, Blache K.; Smith, Rose Marie; Deffenbaugh, Walter S. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1936
This report presents statistics of city public-school systems for the year 1933-34. It also presents, in connection with the text, data on certain points to show trends within the past 10 years, and especially within the past 4 years when the effects of the depression were being felt by the schools. In previous reports statistics for cities…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Annual Reports, School Surveys, School Statistics