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Anagnostopoulos, Dorothea, Ed.; Rutledge, Stacey A., Ed.; Jacobsen, Rebecca, Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2013
"The Infrastructure of Accountability" brings together leading and emerging scholars who set forth an ambitious conceptual framework for understanding the full impact of large-scale, performance-based accountability systems on education. Over the past 20 years, schools and school systems have been utterly reshaped by the demands of…
Descriptors: Accountability, Data, Information Utilization, Educational Change
Nebraska Technical Community Colleges, Lincoln. – 1975
This report is a comprehensive state plan for the development of technical community college education and training in Nebraska. Part I describes the process by which this plan was developed, identifies the ten educational goals of the Technical Community College System, and indicates the present status of goal achievement and the priorities for…
Descriptors: Budgets, College Administration, College Planning, Educational Innovation
Cornesky, Robert A.; McCool, Samuel A. – 1994
This book describes the steps and tools of Total Quality Management (TQM) and their use in the academic units of colleges and universities for Total Quality Improvement (TQI), illustrated by a case study from the School of Arts & Sciences at a state university. Section 1 explains how to: (1) identify problems contributing to non-value-added…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Administration, Colleges, Diagrams
World Bank, Washington, DC. – 1997
Having steadily raised primary enrollment rates over the past 4 decades, India now has 67 million children aged 6-10 who are attending primary school, but 28-32 million who are not. This book draws on a wide range of sources, including original analytical work by Indian researchers and others, to describe the current state of primary education in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Access to Education, Disadvantaged, Educational Attainment
McMahon, Walter, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
This series addresses the relation of education to knowledge-based growth and broader measures of development beyond growth, central features of the modern world in which education has a central role. This role includes the effects of education on pure economic growth including its effects on the creation, adaptation, and dissemination of new…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Expenditure per Student, Higher Education, Human Capital
Seymour, Daniel, Ed.; And Others – 1996
This publication provides research-based discussion in 20 chapters of possible extension of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award to honor high performing colleges. Chapters are organized into two volumes, the first exploring a broad range of issues from a scholarly point of view and the second emphasizing the practical application of a…
Descriptors: Accountability, Accreditation (Institutions), Awards, College Administration