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US Senate, 2016
This hearing is the fourth in the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions' series examining issues in postsecondary education in anticipation of reauthorization of the Higher Education Act. Accreditation's role is to help ensure an acceptable level of quality across a wide spectrum of American higher education. Under the Higher…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Quality Assurance, Educational Quality, Educational Needs
Joint Economic Committee, Washington, DC. – 1990
This document reports written and oral testimony given at a Congressional hearing on problems in the education of noncollege-bound youth in the United States. Testimony was given by Representatives James H. Scheuer and Olympia J. Snowe; Franklin Frazier, General Accounting Office; Raymond J. Uhalde, Employment and Training Administration; Marc S.…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Educational Improvement, Educational Needs, Foreign Countries
Conrad, C. Carson – 1978
The author, Executive Director of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, examines the state of physical education in secondary school programs and presents twelve commonalities of quality physical education programs. Those common characteristics are identified as: (1) high student and staff morale; (2) frequent methods…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Educational Objectives, Educational Quality, Lifetime Sports
1985
The following organizations and agencies sent their suggestions and comments on the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Elementary/Secondary Education Data Redesign Project: American Association for Counseling and Development, American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, American Library Association, Indiana University,…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Educational Assessment, Educational Needs, Educational Policy
National Advisory Council on Education Professions Development, Washington, DC. – 1969
The second annual report of the National Advisory Council on Education Professions Development, addressed to the President and to Congress, presents recommendations in the use and training of educational personnel for educational improvement. The report is divided into sections which include recommendations concerning legislation and…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Finance, Educational Needs
Tamblyn, Lewis R. – 1977
Synthesizing previous research, statements, and special reports calling attention to the unique problems associated with rural education, this paper presents definitions, statistics, and recommendations applicable to rural education and to Montana. Among the topics presented are: a contemporary definition of rurality (nonmetropolitan is posited as…
Descriptors: Definitions, Educational Needs, Educational Objectives, Equipment
Wyoming Community College Commission, 2004
Over 1.6 million students (or 11% of all U.S. higher education students) took at least one online course during Fall 2002. Over one-third of these students (578,000) took all of their courses online. The number of students taking at least one online course is projected to increase by 20% to 1.9 million students by Fall 2003.1 The number of …
Descriptors: Higher Education, Community Colleges, College Students, Geographic Location