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Investigates how local school districts behave in allocating their budgets among teachers, other professional educators, support personnel and nonpersonnel inputs. Demands for school inputs are estimated using U.S. Office of Education data on the ex...
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Investigates production and cost effects of teaching in radiology departments. Models show that cost effects are determined by salaries and fees paid to students and physicians, the levels of student inputs in production, and productivity of student...
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Society's ability to meet the demand for education is influenced by trends in population growth and distribution. This paper illustrates how demographic analysis might strengthen educational policy planning. Sizeable fluctuations of elementary, high...
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This investigation employed discriminant analysis to improve the usefulness of student-faculty ratings in detecting differences in lecturer types.
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This study examines the Alumn Rock School District's attempt to install vouchers within the public school system.
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The possible roles of subsidies provided by the National Endowment for the Arts and the implications for the way in which subsidies are given out are discussed. Although a professed goal of the NEA is to make cultural activities available to more pe...
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Discusses some economic, managerial, and political policy issues associated with public school teachers' collective bargaining. Current economic theories of unionism (public or private) indicate that many collective bargaining effects are basically ...
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The Role of Education in Facilitating Adaptation to Technological Change: An Analytical Framework and Review of the Literature.
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Seeks to identify those characteristics of a policy analyst that are essential to his performance by examing the two most important elements in a policy analyst's training: faculty composition by discipline and course requirements in each discipline.
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Appendix B to Vol. III in a series of reports, sponsored by the U.S. Office of Education, on federally funded (change agent) programs designed to introduce and spread innovative practices in public schools. This appendix deals primarily with Right-To...
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Appendix C to Vol. III in a series of reports, sponsored by the U.S. Office of Education, on federally funded (change agent) programs designed to introduce and spread innovative practices in public schools.
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Appendix D to Vol. III in a series of reports, sponsored by the U.S. Office of Education, on federally funded (change agent) programs designed to introduce and spread innovative practices in public schools. This appendix deals with career education p...
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This document is an abridgment of R-1589/4, the fourth volume in a series of reports, sponsored by the U.S. Office of Education, on federally funded (change agent) programs designed to introduce and spread innovative practices in public schools, whic...
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The third volume in a series of reports, sponsored by the U.S. Office of Education, on federally funded (change agent) programs designed to introduce and spread innovative practices in public schools.
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The fourth volume in a series of reports, sponsored by the U.S. Office of Education, on federally funded (change agent) programs designed to introduce and spread innovative practices in public schools.
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Appendix A to Vol. III in a series of reports, sponsored by the U.S. Office of Education (USOE), on federally funded (change agent) programs designed to introduce and spread innovative practices in public schools.
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Estimating the Effects of Teaching on the Costs of Inpatient Care: The Case of Radiology Treatments.
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Outlines a series of lectures for instructors who wish to present a one- to five-day course in deployment of emergency services. Included are lesson plans, references, and examples of visual aids that can be used.
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The study attempts to determine how much of any increment in a school district's budget tends to be used (1) to increase the teacher-pupil ratio, (2) to raise the teachers' salary schedule, (3) to hire teachers with more experience and training,...
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An economic framework, which combines the theories of human capital and internal labor markets within a probabilistic matrix, is developed to analyze teacher mobility. Among the implications of this framework that received confirmation when tested w...
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