Education at a Crossroads: What Works and What's Wasted in Education Today : Subcommittee Report

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Page A-11 - Department of Education Department of Energy Department of Health and Human Services Department of Housing and Urban Development Department of Justice Department of Labor Department of State Department of the Air Force Department of the Army Department of the Interior Department of the Navy Department of the Treasury Department of Transportation Department of Veterans...
Page A-22 - I think one policy implication that relates to the proposals you have already beard today. The three main conclusions from our report are that most crime prevention funds are being spent where they are needed least, that is, in low risk crime areas, rather than where the violence is concentrated in America. Secondly, most crime prevention programs, whether...
Page xv - Why do we need to know what money buys? Research on resource allocation patterns in elementary and secondary schools' in Picus, LO and Wattenbarger, JL (eds) Where Does the Money Go? Resource Allocation in Elementary and Secondary Schools (1995 Yearbook of the American Education Finance Association}, Newbury Park, CA: Corwin Press, pp.
Page A-17 - Wattenbarger (eds), Where Does the Money Go? Resource Allocation in Elementary and Secondary Schools, Thousand Oaks, CA, Corwin Press.
Page A-47 - In most schools, the language of the classroom is primarily a language about the process of teaching something: it is not itself a language of learning. We came to coil this language "talkinbout. " because we saw so many people talking about reading but not actually reading, talking about writing but not actually writing, and so on. Talkinbout
Page A-35 - Putting the results in perspective. the authors added that "if similar success could be achieved for all minority students nationwide. it could close the gap separating white and minority test scores by somewhere between one-third and more than one-half."83 In a separate assessment of the Milwaukee experiment.
Page A-34 - American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) , National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) , National Organization for Women (NOW) , and organizations that are found on many college campuses.
Page A-30 - US Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, The Condition of Education, 1997. 15. Citato in M. Janofsky, Financial Aid Bargaining Drives Admissions Frenzy, «New York Times», 5 aprile 1999, p.
Page 8 - Act (ESEA), the Goals 2000: Educate America Act and the School-to- Work Opportunities Act...
Page xx - Literacy behind prison walls: Profiles of the prison population from the National Adult Literacy Survey.

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