Adolescent Literacy Programs: Costs of Implementation

Reviews the literature on implementation of educational reforms and compares implementation processes and costs at schools that have adopted one of three literacy reforms. Includes recommendations for detailed resource planning and cost accounting

Accelerated Schools for At-Risk Students

Outlines features of an “Accelerated School,” a transitional elementary school designed to bring disadvantaged students up to grade level by the end of sixth grade. Several schools across the nation are piloting the model

Patience, Persistence and Properties of Two-Country Incomplete Market Models

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A Study of the Opinions of High School and College Students of Western Kansas Regarding Science Teachers and Science Courses

The purpose of this study was to evaluate, on the basis of student opinion: 1. The outstanding characteristics of the effective science teacher. 2. Student preference as to instructional procedures. 3. The attitudes of students toward science courses. 4. The areas of science that students consider especially interesting and important. II. Procedure: This study was undertaken with the assumption that student opinions and reactions are valid to use as criteria in judging the suitability of science courses and the characteristics of the effective science teacher. After surveying the related studies, four questionnaires were prepared and submitted to 2098 junior high, high school and college students. III. Conclusions: The data secured through the techniques used in this investigation seems to indicate that: 1. The outstanding characteristics of the effective science teacher are the ability to explain clearly and expert knowledge of subject matter. 2. Demonstrations, laboratory and field trips received the highest ratings as instructional procedures. 3. The data concerning the responses of students regarding science courses shows a wide difference of opinion. However, a very high percentage of the students believed that the study of science is valuable, interesting and important for all students. 4. The four groups of respondents were in general most interested in two areas; first, that area concerning information about themselves and their personal welfare-topics such as reproduction, heredity, the human body and the nature and control of disease. The other area of particular interest deals with those things of current importance in everyday life. Such an area includes the nature and control of matter and energy and the basic principles of physics and chemistry

The Economics of Education

A comprehensive survey of the history and contemporary issues in the economics of education, and especially cost effectiveness research. Designed for courses on the economics of education

The Costs to the Nation of Inadequate Education: A Report Prepared for the Select Committee on Equal Educational Opportunity of the United States Senate

The purpose of this study was to estimate the costs to the nation of the inadequate education of a substantial portion of the population, where an inadequate education for the latter third of the twentieth century was defined as an attainment of less than high school graduation. Using data from the Department of Commerce and other sources in conjunction with extensive research literature from the social sciences, this report obtained the following findings: (1) The failure to attain a minimum of high school completion among the population of males 24 to 34 years of age in 1969 was estimated to cost the nation 237 billion dollars in income over the lifetime of these men; and, 71 billion dollars in foregone government revenues; (2) In contrast, the probable costs of having provided a minimum of high school completion for this group of men was estimated to be about 40 billion dollars; (3) Welfare expenditures attributable to inadequate education are estimated to be about three billion dollars each year and are probably increasing over time; and, (4) The costs to the nation of crime that is related to inadequate education appears to be about three billion dollars a year and rising

The Economic Payoff to Investing in Educational Justice

The quest for educational equity is a moral imperative for a society in which education is a crucial determinant of life chances. Yet whether there is an economic return to the taxpayer for investing in educational justice is often not considered. It is possible that the economic benefits of reducing inadequate education exceed the costs, returning a healthy dividend to the taxpayer. This article addresses a four-decade quest to ascertain the fiscal consequences of investing in effective approaches to reduce inadequate education in the United States. It uses economic analysis to calculate both the costs of effective strategies to raise high school graduation rates and their benefits to the taxpayer in higher tax revenues and reduced costs of criminal justice, public health, and public assistance. The results suggest that improving educational justice provides substantial returns to taxpayers that exceed the costs