"Mixed-sector" institutions are relatively new in Australia, but numbers are likely to increase as the boundaries between vocational education and training (VET) and higher education become increasingly blurred. In 2009 the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) published research examining the nature of higher education offered by public VET providers ("Higher education in TAFE" by Leesa Wheelahan, Gavin Moodie, Stephen Billett and Ann Kelly). Gavin...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Public Support, Vocational Education,...
This "Student Workbook" contains 24 lessons of resource material that is intended for use in university courses on bicycle and pedestrian transportation. The lessons span a wide range of topics including an introduction to bicycling and walking issues, planning and designing for bicycle and pedestrian facilities, and supporting elements and programs. This is the second edition of the "Student Workbook"; the first edition was published as Report No. FHWA-RD-99-198....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Transportation, Workbooks, Pedestrian Traffic, Resource Materials, Textbook Content,...
This paper discusses the financial support of libraries in general, and encourages information professionals to do more to communicate the value of libraries and library services to politicians and others involved in the distribution of public funds. Nineteen references are cited. (FM)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Economic Factors, Financial Support, Foreign Countries, Information Services,...
This document presents ten views on vocational education needs in Montana and a presentation on the nationwide role of vocational education, from representatives of the National Advisory Council on Vocational Education, local and state education agencies, the public, special needs groups, labor, business and industry. At this 2-day annual public meeting, the keynote speaker discussed the federal government's role in developing career education models and in other vocational exploration...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Advisory Committees, Board of Education Role, Career Development, Career Education,...
The publication describes the process which created the Rural Virginia Development Foundation and the potential contribution it holds for the agricultural sector of Virginia's economy and for the state's rural communities. Following an introduction, Part II provides background, operating assumptions, and principal justification for the Foundation; summarizes other states' experiences in dealing with economic development problems; describes features of industrial development corporations,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Agency Cooperation, Agency Role, Comparative Analysis, Economic Development, Higher...
This study examines various options available in the formulation of a proposal to increase student charges in the University of California and the State colleges. Four issues are discussed: (1) cost distribution of state and student support; (2) uses of the fees for instruction, student services, student financial aid, research, community services, capital outlay current operations, debt instrument, and pay-as-you-go plan; (3) techniques for cost administration, i.e., comprehensive loan,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Costs, Educational Finance, Expenditures, Fees, Financial Support, Higher Education,...
The geographic distribution of arts funding by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and selected state art agencies is examined in this report. Data collected from the 1985 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts was used to determine if variations in geographic participation rates help explain differences in government support of the arts. Funding patterns for jazz, music, opera, musical plays, drama, ballet, and art museums were examined through an analysis of arts-related financial...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Art Activities, Cultural Activities, Demography, Federal Aid, Financial Support,...
This paper examines changes in American higher education, using the metaphor of ocean tides. The tides of change in the 1980s included public demands for assessment and accountability; fairness and credibility in advantages and benefits; improved quality of education; effectiveness and efficiency; assurance that college graduates were personally effective and outstanding participants in society; and improved quality of life. American colleges and universities continually struggled in the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Accountability, Age Differences, Cultural Pluralism, Diversity (Student), Educational...
This paper examines library network activity in the United States and the past, present, and future roles of the federal government in nationwide library networking. The first chapter describes the history and development of library networks and defines terms used in the report. An examination of the current status of networks in the second chapter includes an outline of some of the most critical issues confronted and descriptions of four major information utilities and 21 state or multi-state...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Consortia, Federal Aid, Federal Government, Government Role, Information Services,...
During the past several years, policymakers and practitioners have concentrated their energies on resolving equity/adequacy issues, reforming school tax structures, improving schools' efficiency and cost-effectiveness, developing school-based accountability, and exploring alternative cost-cutting and fundraising strategies. Total expenditures for public elementary and secondary education approached $336 billion for 2000-01, making education the largest single spending category in all the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Accountability, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Equity (Finance), Educational...
In spring 1997, Arizona repeated a spring 1996 statewide public poll that established baseline measures of public attitudes toward school-to-work (STW). Samples were drawn from three constituent groups: parents, businesses, and educators. Over 2,700 Arizonans participated each year. Overall awareness of STW was up significantly among every group. The belief that local schools were involved increased, but many parents, businesses, and teachers still said their schools were not involved or they...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Career Education, Curriculum Design, Education Work Relationship, Educational Change,...
To assess the feasibility of large-scale, countercyclical public job creation, a study was initiated. Job creation program activities were examined in terms of how many activities could be undertaken; what would be their costs; and what would be their characteristics (labor-intensity, skill-mix, and political acceptability) that might contribute to cost benefit analysis. Onsite and offsite job-creation was considered. The potential inflationary pressure that could be generated was also...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrative Policy, Community Programs, Cost Effectiveness, Employment...
Thirteen objectives of the program and analyses of each in terms of procedure, evaluation, the status of procedure, and status of the evaluation are listed in this report. The objectives are: the establishment of a community relations program to promote two-way communication between school board, administration, teachers, students, and parents; the maintenance, expansion, and promotion of the operation of the citizens' advisory council; the extension of the adult-parent and student information...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Aspiration, Advisory Committees, Child Advocacy, Cultural Differences,...
Various changes have swept across California's system of education over the past few years--tax limitations, equity of spending allocations, declining enrollment, and mainstreaming, to mention a few. Interviews with 104 educators conducted in 1978-79 in the San Jose Unified School District revealed how those at all levels of a local school system felt about the impact on education of these social and economic changes. The results showed considerable concern, highlighted by a sense that the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrator Attitudes, Economic Climate, Economic Factors, Elementary Secondary...
California has long been viewed by the rest of the nation as leader in many areas, including education. The state's K-12 and higher education systems were once the envy of other states. Of late, though, the news from the Golden State has not been so rosy. For the last three decades California has faced increased demands on public services while suffering through economic cycles that have had exaggerated effects on the state budget. The result has been increased competition for limited...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Public Education, Public Opinion, Educational Attitudes, State Surveys, Educational...
The increased competition for public funds will soon make inter-agency cooperation a necessity. In particular, the merging of school and public libraries will result in a reduction in duplication of services and savings in the areas of personnel services, building space, and acquisition of materials. The planned high school for Anderson County is expected to become a community school complex with shared facilities for use by all age groups in the County. (STS)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Agency Cooperation, Cooperative Planning, Financial Support, Library Cooperation,...
The problem of securing funds to support programs for the young handicapped child is a major one for rural service providers. The process of securing funds from within the rural community itself should include nine steps: (1) defining the needy; (2) determining responsibility; (3) identifying resources; (4) considering the message; (5) choosing the targets; (6) building the fund raising team; (7) developing public relations strategies; (8) executing the fund raising event(s), i.e.,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Community Involvement, Delivery Systems, Disabilities, Early Childhood Education,...
Public attitudes toward bilingual education were explored in a survey of a national non-Hispanic sample of 1,570 individuals. Four issues were addressed: (1) the popular conception of bilingual education; (2) how informed the American public is about the bilingual education issue; (3) the level of public support or opposition to bilingual education; and (4) the underlying reasons for current public opinion, analyzed by comparing a symbolic politics approach with self-interest explanations. It...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Bilingual Education, Comparative Analysis, Government Role, Hispanic Americans,...
This overview of the National Science Board's Science and Engineering Indicators 2006 describes some major U.S. and international science and technology (S&T) developments. It focuses on trends since about 1990, although it occasionally takes a longer view. The overview synthesizes selected major findings in a meaningful way and is not intended to be comprehensive. The reader will find many important findings in the report that are not covered in the overview, e.g., public support for...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Public Support, Engineering Education, Science Education, Educational Indicators,...
The paper summarizes the results of an analysis of recently issued Census data. Examining the anti-poverty effectiveness of cash and non-cash benefit programs from 1979 to 1986, the analysis focuses on the impacts of those programs on families with children, the group whose poverty rate has risen most rapidly since 1979. The data reveal that government benefit programs now lift a smaller proportion of families with children out of poverty than they did in 1979. One-third of the increase in...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Child Welfare, Economically Disadvantaged, Family Income, Federal Programs, Low...
The Committee for Economic Development (CED) has a decades-old commitment to quality early childhood education. CED Trustees have always been in the forefront of the effort to promote early learning and development for all children. Over recent years, the case for investment in the early years of childhood has become stronger and more urgent. Scholars from several disciplines have learned more in fields that range from the first stages of development of the brain to the demonstrable life-long...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Investment, Human Capital, Outcomes of...
Presented is the transcript of hearings held in Minnesota and Pennsylvania in 1973 and 1974 before the Senate Subcommittee on the Handicapped of the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, on S.6, a bill to provide financial assistance to the states for improved exceptional educational programs. Reported are statements by committee members (including Senators W. Mondale and H. Humphrey), special educators (such as professor M. Reynolds), directors of special programs (such as R. Scott, director...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Exceptional Child Education, Federal Aid, Federal Legislation, Financial Policy,...
This study surveyed existing preschool education programs and practices in the State Offices of Education in the 50 states. A survey instrument (Information Form on Preschool Education), mailed to 50 chief state school officers, contained questions in three areas of preschool education: (1) general information (2) personnel commitment and (3) accommodations made available by State Offices of Education to assist schools. The completed survey instrument was returned by 40 states. Findings are...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Child Care, Government Role, Nursery Schools, Preschool Education, Public Policy,...
A significant problem of higher education today is public skepticism. If the educational leadership will stimulate political leaders to cope constructively with six central problems, the remaining years of the 1970's could be an "age of wisdom." The problems are: (1) the need for the assurance of greater resources in coming years; (2) the need for assistance to private institutions so that they may maintain or increase their share of total enrollment; (3) that the institutions...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Accountability, Credibility, Federal Government, Government Role, Higher Education,...
The concept of an extended school year was first defined in "A Nation at Risk," which recommended lengthening the school calendar to 200-220 days per year (compared to the current average of about 180 days). Little research is available to prove the benefits of an extended calendar, and many question if this practice is a cost-effective way to achieve educational excellence. A summary of research on this topic suggests that the high cost of additional school days is disproportionate...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Achievement, Comparative Education, Cost Effectiveness, Dropout Rate,...
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Alan Watt CTTM LIVE on RBN 1279 State No Position Else You Get Visit From Speech Inquisition Feb 28, 2013 Feb. 28, 2013 Alan Watt "Cutting Through The Matrix" LIVE on RBN: Poem Copyright Alan Watt Feb. 28, 2013: State No Position, Else You Get Visit from Speech Inquisition: "The Ministry of Truth is at it Again, Targeting "Phobics" Who are Usually Men, In This "Age of Diversity" We should Find All Types of Viewpoints from Others' Minds, But We're in...
Topic: Levels of Reality - Antique Technology - The March Toward Mind Control - Brain-Computer Interfaces...
This collection of essays seeks to offer a composite portrait of state humanities programs from a wide range of viewpoints. Topics explored include: the role of the National Endowment for the Humanities; the importance of the humanities; origins and new directions for state programs; humanities and the issues of public policy, the arts, science, and the social sciences; the use of the media in state humanities programs; political ramifications in the areas of funding and accountability; and the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Audiovisual Communications, Cultural Activities, Humanities, Position Papers, Public...
A study focused on the effect of welfare reform legislation on literacy or social service providers and families participating in the programs. Program staff and participants in Wisconsin and California were surveyed and interviewed to determine how welfare reform impacted what they do programmatically or personally. Findings indicated receipt of public assistance has had an enormous impact on the ways in which these family units are viewed or treated in American society, with media,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Education, Economically Disadvantaged, Family Income, Family Literacy, Family...
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The article focuses on the role of media in eliciting public consent for the use of military force by the executive in the Iraq war . In run-up to the war with Iraq and in the postwar period, a significant portion of the American public has held a number of misperceptions relevant to going to Iraq for war . To find the possible role of misperceptions in public support for the Iraq war and the role of the media in the process before and during the war , the...
Topics: Iraq War, 2003-2011, Public opinion, Mass media, International conflict, Public support
The thrust of the study is to examine public support and facilitation of co-operative aid to women empowerment with focus on Women Development Centre (WDC) in Anambra State. Thirty (30) members of Women Co-operative Societies in WDC and 24 members of staff in WDC were randomly selected for the study. Data were collected through the use of two sets of structured questionnaires for the women co-operative members and staff of WDC. The data collected were analyzed using descriptive statistics...
Topics: Business Economics Public Support, Co-operative, Women, Empowerment, WDC
This study analyzed the viability of financing a voucher program for cocaine addicts in Spain through public and private donations. Of the 136 companies contacted, 52 (38%) provided donations. The difference between the benefits (15,670[euros]/$20,371) and the costs (3,734[euros]/$4,854) was 11,936[euros]/$15,517. The type of reinforcer a company can offer, the size of the company, and the time elapsed before responding may be determining variables in a company's decision whether to...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Cocaine, Organization Size (Groups), Foreign Countries, Educational Vouchers,...
Driven by economic and educational imperatives, public policymakers, higher education leaders, and philanthropic and advocacy groups are mobilizing aggressive national and state campaigns to bolster college completion. Campaigns to improve student success are particularly concerned about the performance of the nation's community colleges. In response to this challenge, state governments are testing the power of several policy levers to change individual and institutional behaviors in ways that...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Community Colleges, Educational Finance, Financial Support, Public Support, Outcomes...
This publication, volume 1 of 2, contains proceedings from a national symposium on recreation trends. Topics of the 25 papers in volume 1 include: selected trends in recreation activities; and recreation planning, policy, financing, equipment, organizational membership, and lands and waters. Papers are arranged in six sections: (1) Data-Deficient Planning: An Overview; (2) Trends in the Leisure Economy; (3) Facilitating Trends; (4) Trends in Policy and Influence; (5) Trends in Recreation...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Camping, Futures (of Society), History, Natural Resources, Outdoor Activities, Parks,...
This guide is intended to provide guidance to state and local leaders in identifying the need for finance reform; understanding and evaluating the pros and cons of alternative financial approaches; and designing strategies to build long-lasting public support. Chapter 1 reviews the key forces pushing for reform and outlines principles to guide reform. Chapters 2 through 5 describe an array of policy options for state and local reformers across four critical and interrelated areas of finance:...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Budgeting, Change Agents, Change Strategies, Children, Educational Finance,...
School success is a complex and abstract notion. Asking questions about what is meant by school success is important, since the ways in which educators and administrators define school success tends to guide their practice, and may have implications for current and future policy initiatives. This qualitative case study explores how one publicly funded Catholic school in Ontario, Canada, conceives of school success. First, a brief historical description of publicly funded Catholic schooling in...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Catholic Schools, Administrator Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes,...
The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) gathers and produces statistics and other information on the status and progress of education in the United States. In 1989 as in 1988, the center published the "indicators" (key data that measure the health of education, monitor important developments, and show trends in major aspects of education) in three volumes. "The Condition of Education" report encompasses the first two volumes, addressing education at the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Achievement, Degrees (Academic), Educational Assessment, Educational...
As requested by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Interagency Committee for Extramural Mathematics Programs (ICEMAP), this report updates the 1984 Report known as the "David Report." Specifically, the charge directed the committee to (1) update that report, describing the infrastructure and support for U.S. mathematical sciences research; (2) assess trends and progress over the intervening five years against the recommendations of the 1984 Report; (3) briefly assess the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Mathematics, Educational Improvement, Educational Needs, Educational...
This report discusses a survey which explored the contradictory opinions of millions of Americans who support integration, but often resist one means to desegregation, busing. According to the report, two thirds of the people in this survey who say they support integration are also generally opposed to busing. The survey was designed to learn the extent to which public opposition to busing is monolithic and implacable and to study the relationship between accurate knowledge about the facts of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Bus Transportation, Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Methods, Integration...
The Illinois Governor's Task Force on Universal Access to Preschool is part of a broad-based effort to increase the quality of life for all children in Illinois. This report presents the action plan developed by this task force and calls for the creation of Illinois Preschool, a program giving all Illinois families quality preschool options for 3- and 4-year-olds. Part 1 of this report delineates the elements of Illinois Preschool and the activities integral to its success. Part 2 details...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Access to Education, Budgeting, Compensation (Remuneration), Educational Finance,...
The purpose of this monograph is to stimulate discussion of vertical equity through an assessment of the funding systems in four states (California, New York, Texas, and Wisconsin) that ascertains how and to what extent at-risk factors are addressed. (In education, children defined as at risk of low academic achievement or of dropping out represent the operationalization of vertical equity.) The paper is divided into six major sections, beginning with a description of the framework for...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Costs, Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary...
This report examines how various groups are working to influence improved results for children and families through public will strategies, defining public will as the steps required to change the outcomes for children and families. There are seven chapters: (1) "Introduction"; (2) "A Conceptual Framework for Public Will Work" (what social marketing is and implications); (3) "Lessons from Campaigns Outside of the Children's Area" (common themes of the National...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Advocacy, Child Health, Citizen Participation, Family Health, Health Promotion,...
This monograph is designed for family support professionals who struggle with the challenges of finding the optimal mix of revenue sources with limited staff and resources. It contains nine articles that offer a variety of perspectives from people who work in the family support field either as program providers or as funders. The articles offer advice and suggestions for raising revenues and tapping into various funding sources, and offer descriptions of successful programs. The articles are:...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Corporate Support, Family Programs, Fund Raising, Grantsmanship, Nonprofit...
Forum 8 is concerned with obstacles to educational reform which are based on obsolete myths. Forum members urgently advocate alternatives to the traditional public school approach. Since the idea that there is "one best way" to educate is one of the myths, reform must be fluid enough to accommodate individual student style, attitude, and readiness. This report proposes such reform and includes: (1) a brief analysis of the content of several myths considered; (2) an explanation of the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Change, Educational Innovation, Educational Philosophy, Educational...
Migration of the culturally disadvantaged from the South, Southwest, and Puerto Rico to urban areas in the United States has revealed that their education and culture are inadequate to cope with modern urban life. The education of disadvantaged youth, made difficult by their mobility, is further impeded by home and community life, lack of educational funds, and inappropriate curriculums. The school must attempt to modify the home and community as well as expand the mental and physical horizons...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Needs, Public Support
This guide is a compilation of information from both governmental and private sources on funding opportunities available to local governments, small businesses, organizations, associations, groups, and individuals. The directories, catalogs, guides, newsletters, annual reports, computer database services, and other resources cited in this directory cover available grants and funding, information on the grantseeking process, analyses of grantmaking programs, tips for proposal writing and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Awards, Databases, Foundation Programs, Fund Raising, Grants, Grantsmanship, Private...
The essay addresses both the question of poverty and the scope of political science. The study of poverty demands a transeconomic approach because the act of making an economic choice is fundamentally political, but the act is likely to be ambiguous and that ambiguity is peculiarly revealed in the politics of poor relief. While the idea of "welfare" implies an underlying concept of "rights,""poor relief" actually reflects policymakers' judgments about which parts...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Economic Research, Family Income, Finance Reform, Financial Policy, Government Role,...
Financial planning for education is a difficult task as schools struggle for a share of diminishing tax resources. The presentation of school budgets for voter approval must be done as effectively as possible. When presenting budgets, administrators should take into account that the public has a low tolerance for detail, budgets are boring, a well informed public is more positive, presentation materials should be attractive and brief, support groups are needed, and the media should be used...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Budgeting, Budgets, Educational Finance, Educational Status Comparison, Elementary...
The low rates at which U.S. college students complete a degree and the amount time they spend in remedial coursework are national problems. The situation is particularly acute for low-income and other underserved youth, including populations such as Hispanic students that are growing the fastest in the country and that have some of the lowest success rates in our K-12 and postsecondary education systems. It is a problem not only for the students, and not only because our economy and democracy...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Low Income Students, College Readiness, Graduation, Career Readiness, Acceleration...
This report examines recent trends in the provision of state aid and the impact of these trends on college access. It also examines the funding sources for state scholarships, and how the current fiscal crisis facing many states is likely to impact college access and opportunity across the United States. The evidence is fairly conclusive regarding the recent trend toward the substitution of merit for financial need in the awarding of state scholarships. This practice for the most part...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Access to Education, Economic Factors, Financial Support, Higher Education, Public...
The thesis, which presents an analysis of three Wisconsin citizen participation programs relating to the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972 (Public Law 92-500), has identified the adult education role in teaching and applying skills, promoting growth in governmental understanding, assisting in public planning and decision-making processes, and contributing to community betterment. A public participation program is designed by each governmental agency as a part of its work...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Education, Community Development, Community Involvement, Community Programs,...
