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Nomi, Takako – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2010
By incorporating two theoretical frameworks this study examines how school characteristics shape first-grade reading ability-grouping practices, and how this, in turn, affects students' reading achievement. The author uses the data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study and applies the propensity-score method to examine whether first-grade…
Descriptors: Private Schools, Reading Achievement, Ability Grouping, Reading Ability
Bureau of Indian Education, 2013
The Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) funds schools located on 63 reservations in 23 states across the nation. Of the 183 schools, 59 are Bureau operated and 124 are tribally controlled. One-hundred and sixteen schools provide instructional programs, 55 provide instructional as well as boarding services and 12 peripheral dormitories provide only…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Federal Programs, Federal Aid, Tribally Controlled Education
State Higher Education Executive Officers, 2013
The State Higher Education Finance (SHEF) report is produced annually by the State Higher Education Executive Officers (SHEEO) to broaden understanding of the context and consequences of multiple decisions made every year in each of these areas. No single report can provide definitive answers to such broad and fundamental questions of public…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Finance, Income, Public Policy
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Crum, Karen S. – International Journal of Educational Reform, 2007
The goal of this study was to analyze the characteristics in the school board decision-making process and to discover whether school board members are aware of the characteristics surrounding the school board's decision-making process. Specifically, this study examines the decision-making process of a school board in Virginia, and it provides…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Statistical Data, Data Analysis, Decision Making Skills
Qiu, Wei – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The study explores factors that enhance or inhibit the language adjustment of international students in the U.S. Using social network influence model, the study examines the effects of language resources, language norm, and technology use on international students' self-confidence in overall English skills and four subskills, namely, listening,…
Descriptors: Statistical Data, Educational Technology, Social Networks, Network Analysis
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Snyder, Thomas D. – National Center for Education Statistics, 2014
This is the first edition of the "Mobile Digest of Education Statistics." This compact compilation of statistical information covers prekindergarten through graduate school to describe the current American education scene. The "Mobile Digest" is designed as an easy mobile reference for materials found in detail in the…
Descriptors: Statistical Data, Elementary Education, Secondary Education, Preschool Education
Liu, Ying – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Tables are ubiquitous with a history that pre-dates that of sentential text. Authors often report a summary of their most important findings using tabular structure in documents. For example, scientists widely use tables to present the latest experimental results or statistical data in a condensed fashion. Along with the explosive development of…
Descriptors: Search Engines, Electronic Libraries, Information Sources, Information Seeking
Karmel, Tom; Mark, Kevin; Nguyen, Nhi – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2009
The purpose of this paper looks at the fundamental issue of whether VET does improve the employment prospects of the groups in question. It exploits data from the Student Outcome Survey to construct samples that proxy three welfare groups and models the post-training employment outcomes. Appendices include: (1) Characteristics of the proxy groups;…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Vocational Education, Education Work Relationship, Employment Potential
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Johannisson, Tove B.; Wennerfeldt, Susanna; Havstam, Christina; Naeslund, Maria; Jacobson, Kajsa; Lohmander, Anette – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2009
Background: The risk of developing a negative attitude to communication as a consequence of having a speech disorder has been in focus for decades in research concerning fluency disorders in relation to both children and adults. The Communication Attitude Test (CAT), which was created to measure children's attitudes towards their own…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Speech Impairments, Negative Attitudes, Validity
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Cimera, Robert Evert – Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities (RPSD), 2009
This study explored the cost-efficiency of all 231,204 supported employees funded by vocational rehabilitation throughout the entire United States from 2002 to 2007. Results found that supported employees returned an average monthly net benefit to taxpayers of $251.34 (i.e., an annual net benefit of $3,016.08 per supported employee) and generated…
Descriptors: Supported Employment, Vocational Rehabilitation, Cost Effectiveness, Disabilities
Agron, Joe – American School & University, 2009
Despite the worst economic environment in generations, spending by K-12 institutions on maintenance and operations (M&O) held its own--defying historical trends that have shown M&O spending among the most affected in times of budget tightening. This article presents data from the 38th annual Maintenance & Operations Cost Study for…
Descriptors: School Maintenance, Operating Expenses, School District Spending, Elementary Secondary Education
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Asplund, Rita; Abdelkarim, Oussama Ben; Skalli, Ali – Higher Education in Europe, 2009
Most countries have experienced soaring enrolment rates into tertiary education. While this is beneficial both to involved students and to knowledge-based societies, it also makes the funding issue even more crucial than it is usually seen to be. This paper presents first results from an analysis of the effectiveness of student loans as a funding…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Socioeconomic Background, Cohort Analysis, Student Loan Programs
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Chapman, Bruce; Lounkaew, Kiatanantha – Higher Education in Europe, 2009
In recent times there has been considerable change and instability with respect to Thailand student loans policy. The contribution of what follows is to compare and contrast the consequences of disparate possible approaches to the payment of tuition in two main respects: the effect on internal rates of return for higher education investments; and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Income Contingent Loans, Tuition
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West, Anne; Barham, Eleanor – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2009
This paper explores the relationship between student mobility, qualifications and academic recognition within Europe. It provides an outline of supranational legal instruments and policies in relation to academic recognition and student mobility. It then examines some of the difficulties associated with the different concepts underpinning the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Mobility, Qualifications, Recognition (Achievement)
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Guillén-Nieto, Victoria; Vargas-Sierra, Chelo; Pardiño-Juan, Maria; Martinez-Barco, Patricio; Suárez-Cueto, Armando – International Journal of English Studies, 2008
Back in the 1990s Malcolm Coulthard announced the beginnings of an emerging discipline, "forensic linguistics", resulting from the interface of language, crime and the law. Today the courts are more than ever calling on language experts to help in certain types of cases, such as authorship identification, plagiarism, legal interpreting…
Descriptors: Crime, Applied Linguistics, Laws, Court Litigation
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