This report examines the implementation of No Child Left Behind's (NCLB) supplemental educational service provisions in eleven urban districts--Mesa Public Schools and Washington Elementary District Schools, AZ, Fresno Unified School District and Los Angeles Unified School District, CA, Chicago Public Schools, IL, Buffalo Public Schools and New…

This report identifies issues in state financing of programs to train nurse practitioners and physician assistants and presents findings of a national survey of 51 such training programs. An introductory chapter gives the main arguments for increased use of nonphysician providers of primary health care; this is followed by a chapter on barriers to…

This report documents a 3-year evaluation of Georgia's CrossRoads alternative education program. It focuses on the direct benefits to regular classrooms of removing disruptive students, the effectiveness of services rendered to those removed students, the success with which they are returned to the regular classroom, and the projected costs and…

This guide has been developed to assist Ohio school districts in completing the requirements of Ohio legislation on the identification and services for children who are gifted. It includes instructions for developing and submitting a service plan for children who are gifted and a fiscal estimate of the plan. The guide corresponds with a Web site…

Since 1998, Florida voters have passed three amendments that pressure state officials to increase education spending. The 1998 amendment introduced constitutional language establishing the importance of education to the state and its citizens, requiring "adequate provision?for a uniform, efficient, safe, secure, and high quality system of free…

Described a program for prison inmates, who were able to learn in cooperation with community colleges, which helped prisoner rehabilitation further with their special midnight program. (RK)

Community Quest is one of the most innovative projects in secondary curriculum and teacher education in Hawaii, and it allows students the opportunity to become involved in community-centered curriculum. (Author/RK)

The Ontario Educational Communications Authority has a new video-tape program service for teachers which may well grow into mass distribution of taped ETV programs to people right in their own homes. (Author)

Compares the national average per pupil expenditure from a sample of 2,100 school districts for the school years 1967-68 through 1972-73. Cost categories used are administration, instruction, and attendance service, as well as total per pupil expenditure. These average costs are also compared by geographical region and by school district size. (JH)

Focus of the study was to identify and analyze the common elements of the instructional organizational systems used in nine of the most effective Title I reading components in 1968-69 for disadvantaged pupils in grades 1-6. (Author)

Results of evaluative studies indicate that learning by independent study does not compare favorably with results of the usual lecture-discussion techniques. (IR)

The programs of sponsored experiential learning can improve their bargaining position within the institution by practicing and demonstrating cost-effective forms of operation. Effective sponsored experiential learning programs can actually increase the cost-effectiveness of the host institution. (MLW)

Medicare reimbursement for educational program costs is a quagmire of conflicting rules, regulations, laws, procedures, and precedents. The reimbursement principles in force fail to recognize the special value to patient care provided by the integration of the university hospital with an academic health sciences center and are illogical and…