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US House of Representatives, 2023
This document records testimony from a hearing before the Committee on Education and the Workforce that was held to examine America's opportunities for hiring and employment. Member statements were provided by: (1) Honorable Virginia Foxx, Chairwoman, Committee on Education and the Workforce; and (2) Honorable Robert Scott,' 'Bobby'', Ranking…
Descriptors: Personnel Selection, Employment, Opportunities, Labor Force Development
US House of Representatives, 2022
This document records testimony from a hearing before the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education that was held to discuss the future of higher education post COVID-19. Member statements were presented by: (1) Honorable Frederica S. Wilson, Chairwoman, Subcommittee on Education and Workforce Investment; and (2)…
Descriptors: Hearings, COVID-19, Pandemics, Elementary Secondary Education
Schoppmeyer, Martin W. – 1989
In 1983, the Arkansas Supreme Court passed Act 34 to correct the school finance system of Arkansas which was found to be unconstitutional. The problems with Act 34 are multiple. The following problems and how they add to inequity in education are discussed: (1) the use of artificial calculations; (2) an ill fit with Amendment 59; (3) current…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education
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O'Neil, Robert M. – Journal of College and University Law, 1984
A university president urges development of a doctrine of "academic deference" to protect academic freedom and discourages overuse of constitutional litigation in higher education-related disputes. Academic deference is encouraged in censorship of former government employees returning to academe, restrictions on international scholarly…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, College Administration, Constitutional Law, Court Litigation
Gregory, Gwendolyn H. – 1981
In 1981 the federal courts decided hundreds of cases involving schools relating to civil rights statutes, the First Amendment, the Fourth Amendment, and the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Lawsuits concerning the handicapped involved such issues as the costs of determining what is equal opportunity in education, full-time…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Court Role, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education
de Siqueira, Angela C. – 2002
Since the 1960s, the World Bank has been involved in educational policy around the world. Applying a human capital theory/manpower forecasting approach, the World Bank has focused on the infrastructure, that is, buildings and equipment, in vocational and higher education. At the same time, the power and influence of UNICEF and UNESCO, the main…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Educational Development, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
Bell, T. H. – 1983
Although quality education is a concern in every field of study, science, mathematics, and technology have a special importance in this country. They make up one of the cornerstones on which our success as a nation is built. To maintain our strength and independence, skills in these fields cannot degenerate. President Reagan has said that the…
Descriptors: Educational Cooperation, Educational Improvement, Federal Aid, Federal Legislation