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NCES 2005865 | Developments in School Finance: 2004
This report contains papers presented at the 2004 annual NCES Summer Data Conference. Discussions and presentations dealt with such topics as measuring school efficiency, analyzing the return on education investment, calculating education costs per student, and assessing the financial condition of school districts. |
7/25/2005 |
NCES 2004325 | Developments in School Finance: 2003
This report contains papers presented at the 2003 annual NCES Summer Data Conference. The scholars' papers address teacher turnover; financing urban schools; the costs of improving student performance; distinguishing good schools from bad in principle and practice; an evaluation of the efficacy of state adequacy and equity indicators; school finance reform in Vermont; and school accountability. |
9/20/2004 |
NCES 2003074 | National Student Service-Learning and Community Service Survey (FRSS 71): Public Use Data Files
This file contains data from a 1999 quick-response survey, "National Student Service-Learning and Community Service Survey" (FRSS 71). The survey was sent to principals at elementary and secondary public schools, who passed it along to the school official most knowledgeable about the types of programs in question. These officials were asked about policies, support, and funding for their school’s community service and service learning programs. Questions covered rates of student participation, presence of school policies requiring participation, reasons that schools encourage involvement, level of integration of service learning into the curriculum, program staffing, types of service-learning available to students, availability of support and professional development for teachers, presence of service-learning project evaluation measures, and sources of funding. |
5/6/2003 |
NCES 2002316 | Developments in School Finance, 1999-2000
This report includes the fiscal proceedings from the annual NCES State Data Conference July 1999 and July 2000. The individual papers address evaluating school performance; school district spending on professional development; making money matter; school reform and resource allocation; school finance litigation and property tax revolts; and where new state money goes when distributed to school districts. |
7/10/2002 |
NCES 1999043 | Service-Learning and Community Service in K-12 Public Schools
Service-learning, discussed here in terms of incorporating community service experiences into students' school work, has long been viewed as a positive education reform option. Beginning in the 1970s, educators began paying more attention to this teaching option and the 1990s saw an array of initiatives to help promote the practice. To determine how extensive the practice is, NCES conducted the first national-level study of service-learning in America's K-12 public schools in the spring of 1999. Analysis of this study reveals a number of interesting results including the fact that roughly one-third of these schools have incorporated service-learning to some extent and that most of the schools that have service-learning provide teachers some sort of support to help them integrate service into their curriculum. |
9/28/1999 |
NCES 1999045 | Status of Education Reform in Public Elementary and Secondary Schools: Teachers' Perspective
This report details findings from the Fast Response Survey System (FRSS) survey: Teachers' Perspectives, Teacher Survey on Education Reform. A companion to a similar survey of public school principals conducted at the same time, this survey asked teachers for their views on topics including: implementing reform activities, high standards for all students, and professional development activities for teachers. |
2/23/1999 |
NCES 98025 | Status of Education Reform in Public Elementary and Secondary Schools: Principals' Perspectives
This report contains information about reform efforts in schools reported by school principals through a mail survey. It presents the findings of the principal survey, called the "Public School Survey on Education Reform. |
5/19/1998 |
NCES 97908 | How Widespread is Site-Based Decisionmaking in the Public Schools?
The push towards decentralization raises questions about the composition and areas of responsibility of site-based decisionmaking bodies. What percentages of these groups include teachers? parents? What school policy areas do site-based decisionmaking bodies consider? Data available from the 1993-94 Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS), conducted by the National Center |
1/15/1997 |
NCES 97909 | Public School Choice Programs, 1993-94: Availability and Student Participation
Does the availability of public school choice programs differ by region? Which choice program type is most widely available? What percentage of students in choice districts annually participate in the programs? Data available from the Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS), conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), is used to address these questions. |
1/15/1997 |
NCES 9603 | National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88) Research Framework and Issues
This report is designed to serve several audiences. First, it will inform beginning NELS:88 data users of the many substantive issues that can be addressed by the data. Second, it will hopefully challenge experienced analysts by presenting them with promising but complicated research ideas that can be explored with NELS:88 data. Third, other audiences may find this report useful for gaining an overview of the richness of NELS:88 data in addressing education policy issues. |
2/28/1996 |