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Mineo, Ronald W.; Stehn, John L. – American School & University, 1998
Discusses the effects of electric power deregulation on an educational facility's planning and purchasing for future power needs. Highlights ways schools can take advantage of deregulation. Examines various chiller technologies and economically assessing these technologies on a life-cycle cost basis. (GR)
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Decision Making, Educational Facilities, Electrical Systems
Pruslow, John T. – School Business Affairs, 2001
Describes the features of a new student resource-allocation model that analyzes resources for individual students, groups, or categories of students and allows the integration of cost analysis into school-district and building-level planning and evaluation. States that use of the model will assist school-district administrators in making more…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education, Financial Policy
Peer reviewedReschovsky, Andrew; Imazeki, Jennifer – Journal of Education Finance, 2001
Argues that state school-finance reform efforts are focused on equalizing property-tax bases and per-pupil expenditures rather than on improving student performance to meet educational adequacy standards. Uses data from Wisconsin and Texas to measure cost differences, frequently substantial, among school districts. Demonstrates use of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Equity (Finance), Elementary Secondary Education
Direct linkCavanaugh, John C. – EDUCAUSE Review, 2004
Much has been written and discussed about the importance of getting presidents' and chancellor's support, buy-in and committment regarding investment in information technology and the accompanying faculty assistance. We need to reframe the IT issue to emphasize what people do with the tangible stuff thereby focusing the issue on knowledge creation…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Computer Uses in Education, Cost Effectiveness, College Administration
Peer reviewedO'Leary, Christopher J.; Decker, Paul T.; Wandner, Stephen A. – Journal of Human Resources, 2005
The purpose of unemployment insurance (UI) is to provide labor force members with partial wage replacements when they are unemployed even as this income maintenance measure prolongs the unemployment period. This UI benefit also forces the beneficiaries to make more active job searches. Reemployment bonuses were aimed to speed return to work,…
Descriptors: Insurance, Unemployment, Labor Force, Cost Effectiveness
Zarkin, Gary A.; Dunlap, Laura J.; Homsi, Ghada – Evaluation Review, 2006
The use of accreditation has been widespread among medical care providers, but accreditation is relatively new to the drug abuse treatment field. This study presents estimates of the costs of pursuing accreditation for methadone treatment sites. Data are from 102 methadone treatment sites that underwent accreditation as part of the Center for…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Program Evaluation, Narcotics, Cost Effectiveness
Meyer, Katrina A. – Planning for Higher Education, 2005
This article proposes a framework that can help institutions break down and analyze the costs of online learning so they can make decisions about how to improve the cost-efficiencies of online education. The framework involves looking at costs across elements (which include the two stages of development and delivery plus administration of the…
Descriptors: Costs, Cost Effectiveness, Higher Education, Web Based Instruction
Fowler, Gerard A. – Journal of School Public Relations, 2006
This article presents a brief overview of the current forms of alternative dispute resolution available in educational settings, along with insight into their development and success. In this article, I assess the influence of early alternative dispute resolution procedures in terms of their relevance to the settlement of conflicts within schools…
Descriptors: Conflict Resolution, Courts, Court Litigation, Comparative Analysis
Powers, Ed; Straker, Garry – CUPA-HR Journal, 2004
Many higher education institutions today are struggling with the costs of their retiree health plans. The answer to controlling these costs may come in the form of a defined contribution retiree health plan for both current and future retirees. This article examines how such a plan can maximize availability of Medicare Part D prescription…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Incentives, Costs, Retirement Benefits
Download full textStedron, Jennifer M.; Shah, Tajel; Bautsch, Brenda; Martin, Patricia; Deye, Sunny; Bailey, Lamar; Handel, Stephen J.; Vasavada, Natasha; Shen, Yilan; Exstrom, Michelle; Shelton, Sara; Santiago, Helen; Bell, Julie Davis; Quin, Bradley J.; Baum, Sandy; Bell, Julie Davis; Sturtevant, Anne; Bautsch, Brenda; Williams, Ronald; Kerouac, Pamela; Badolato, Vincent – College Board Advocacy & Policy Center, 2010
There are formidable challenges at every level of the system that confront students who aspire to enroll and succeed in college. In 2007, the College Board formed the Commission on Access, Admissions and Success in Higher Education to study the educational pipeline as a single continuum and identify solutions to increase the number of students who…
Descriptors: Public Policy, State Action, State Legislation, State Surveys
Berg, Juliette; Torrente, Catalina; Aber, J. Lawrence; Jones, Stephanie M.; Brown, Joshua L. – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2010
The 4Rs Program (Reading, Writing, Respect and Resolution) is a "dual focus" whole school universal intervention designed to promote literacy development and social-emotional learning, that is currently being rigorously evaluated using a school-randomized trial of 18 elementary schools (9 intervention, 9 control) in New York City. The…
Descriptors: Intervention, Educational Change, Data, Program Evaluation
Wyoming Community College Commission, 2010
The "Core Indicators of Effectiveness Report" delineates the performance of Wyoming's community colleges as measured by the 14 indicators set forth by the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) and adopted by the seven Wyoming community colleges and the Wyoming Community College Commission in 2002. These indicators, while…
Descriptors: Stakeholders, Reading Skills, Community Colleges, Educational Indicators
Boyle, Frank; Kwon, Jinhee; Ross, Catherine; Simpson, Ormond – Open Learning, 2010
This article argues that in the drive to develop e-learning initiatives in distance learning, simpler ways of supporting students for retention may be overlooked; for example, the linking of students in the form of mentoring and peer support networks. The article reports on three mentoring projects, in the United Kingdom, Korea and New Zealand,…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Social Support Groups, Mentors, Outcomes of Education
Universal Service Administrative Company, 2009
This paper presents the activities of the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) for 2009. The past year was one of accomplishment for USAC. USAC implemented a host of advances in operations, infrastructure, and outreach in an effort to continue to improve collection and disbursement of the Universal Service Fund (USF) support and to…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Annual Reports, Activities, Outreach Programs
Levy, Dan; Sloan, Matt; Linden, Leigh; Kazianga, Harounan – Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., 2009
The BRIGHT program was designed to improve the educational outcomes of children in Burkina Faso. It focused on girls in particular and was implemented in 132 rural villages throughout the 10 provinces of the country in which girls' enrollment rates were lowest. It consisted of constructing primary schools with three classrooms and implementing a…
Descriptors: Eligibility, Females, Educational Objectives, Outcomes of Education
