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Research Brief
The nationwide push to give local schools more control over decisions that significantly affect the quality of education has been baffled by the amount of control that is still vested outside the schools.
Journal Article
This agenda begins with the mission statement of the National Center for Research in Vocational Education (NCRVE) which envisions NRCVE as serving the role of an agent for change.
Report
Using replicated case studies of 16 corporate and 16 academic institutions, this research explored the ways in which U.S. corporations and institutions of higher education understand globalism and their perceptions of its human resource implications.::
Report
This report presents the findings of an analysis of the fiscal effects of Proposition 174, a school-voucher initiative that appeared on the California ballot.
Journal Article
This paper provides and applies a conceptual framework and a list of guiding principles for evaluation of generalist education programs.
Journal Article
The reduction in symptoms was most pronounced in the children who were most at risk.
Report
Despite the intent of the law, Chapter 1 participants in the poorer, fiscally less able states and school districts are likely to have less spent on their education than students in better-funded districts.
Report
This report explores the issue of U.S. access to Japanese technology related to the FS-X, an aircraft being developed cooperatively by the two countries.
Report
This evaluation provides information on the programs that were developed for the College Bound program.
Report
This study (1) estimates the net effect of changing family characteristics and demographics on aptitude scores and (2) compares the expected changes to actual changes to estimate the effects of factors unrelated to family.
Report
Explores the implementation of one provision of the Military Child Care Act of 1989.
Report
This report is the executive summary of MR-488-LE. It presents the basic findings from this study but the interested reader should refer to the main report for a detailed discussion of the issues.
Report
Being in a profession that receives much criticism--much of it undeserved--can significantly affect the morale of teachers and their desire to stay in the profession. Much of the conventional wisdom regarding schools and families is inaccurate.
Research Brief
It is widely asserted that substantial spending on schools and social programs over the past two decades has failed to reverse the educational downtrend. However, a recent study sharply challenges this view.
Journal Article
The authors presented a representative list of 162 political issues currently discussed in Germany and the German NEO-FFI to 184 subjects (45% university students).
Report
This study assesses the current Chapter 1 program and describes a strategy for reformulating the program to encourage fundamental improvements in the quality of education available to low-income students.
Report
These commentaries make up the second volume of a three part analysis of Chapter 1 of the Elementary and Secondary Act of 1965--the nation's $6.1 billion program for assisting "disadvantaged" students in primary and secondary schools.
Report
This study examined how generic skills and work-related attitudes can be taught in academic and vocational high school classrooms.
Report
This report summarizes the research conducted in a project entitled "The Effectiveness of U.S. Military Training Activities in Promoting Internal Defense and Development in the Third World."
Report
This report is an executive summary of RAND/MR-364-LE, which summarizes the findings of an analysis of the fiscal effects of Proposition 174, a school-voucher initiative that appeared on the California November 1993 ballot.
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