Download or read book Needs based Resource Allocation in Education written by Kenneth Norman Ross and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book explores a range of conceptual, methodological and empirical issues concerned with the application of needs-based resource allocation in education via formula funding of schools. The first part presents the policy context for needs-based formula funding, the second examines technical matters related to the construction of funding formulae and the third part presents case studies in five countries (Australia, England and Wales, United States and New Zealand). The conclusion offers a 'checklist' for senior decision-makers in Ministries of Education that highlights the pre-conditions for undertaking a successful implementation of needs-based formula funding.
Download or read book Resource Allocation and Productivity in Education written by William L. Boyd and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1998-05-26 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resource allocation decisions made by school boards, principals, and teachers are critical for they determine the adequacy and equity of resources actually made available for specific schools, educational programs and individual students. The most important resources are often concealed by aggregate state or district measures such as dollars per student. For these decisions, the most important resources are elements such as basic and supplemental staffing levels, staff time, funding amounts for textbooks and supplies, selection of new equipment (particularly technology), and support for new or renovated facilities. The authors review current practices at each important decision-making level in school districts, from the school board to the classroom. At each juncture, the findings are interpreted to reveal both the causes of the practices and their implications for improving school effectiveness. This book provides new research in helping to inform and improve resource allocation practices in schools. The general conclusion is that improvement in the resource allocation practices in education requires a shift in focus to results instead of inputs, a strong emphasis on student learning as the primary focus of decisions, and systematic evaluation of results.
Download or read book Resource Allocation in Higher Education written by William F. Massy and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers guidance for implementing reforms in the allocation of resources in colleges and universities
Download or read book Resource Allocation written by Scott, M Norton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-18 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows you how your school can maintain its high standards despite financial obstacles. It shows you how to investigate various types and sources of money available to your school; monitor the use of scarce school resources; develop a school improvement plan which incorporates financial needs; and recruit, assign, and develop teachers and staff for maximum effectiveness.
Download or read book Resource Allocation and Educational Need in New York City s Public Schools written by James A. Kelly and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Resources in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Educational Resource Management written by Derek Glover and published by . This book was released on 2020-12 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resource management, though a central responsibility of school and college leaders, is one that they are often unprepared for. Concise and contextual information and guidance are vital, especially as leaders are pressured from all sides to manage their resources astutely. This new edition of Educational Resource Management: An International Perspective is an updated and globally conscious guide to all aspects of this key responsibility. Opening with a detailed overview of funding and resource management in public and private institutions, the book looks at the criteria by which the effectiveness, efficiency, and equity of educational resource management can be judged. It goes on to explore cost structures, budgets, and the principles of asset management through case studies that draw on practitioner experiences as well as the authors' own observations. Educational Resource Management concludes with a review of current tensions and points towards further study, providing a succinct yet comprehensive guide for school and college leaders.
Download or read book Reallocating Resources written by Allan Odden and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chapter 1, "Step 1: The Change Process," focuses on the change process and describes why and how schools engage in program restructuring and resource allocation. Chapter 2, "Step 2: Defining a New Educational Strategy," discusses decisions that must be made about the regular education program and how the various schools adopted, adapted or created curriculum and instructional strategies. Chapter 3, "Step 3: Organizing and Staffing the School to Support the New Educational Strategy," shows how core educational strategy decisions determine the cost structure of schools. It addresses such issues as student grouping, class size, planning and preparation time, and professional development. Chapter 4, "Step 4: Deciding How to Serve Students Who Need Extra Help," describes the resource requirements of choices for serving special needs students, including expensive new strategies funded through resource allocation. Chapter 5, "Step 5: Paying for the Changes," reviews the resource allocation strategies to pay for expensive new educational programs by such staff categories as regular classroom teachers, regular education specialists, remedial specialists, pupil support specialists, instructional aides, and other staff. Chapter 6, "Step 6: Effects of Resource Reallocation and District Roles to Support Such Change," examines how reallocation and restructuring strategies at two schools helped increase student achievement. (Contains 87 references.) (TEJ)
Download or read book Resource Allocation and Productivity in Education written by William T. Hartman and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New research about micro-level resource allocation decisions in education. At each level, the findings suggest causes of the practices and implications for improving school effectiveness.
Download or read book School Budgeting for Hard Times written by William K. Poston, Jr. and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2010-11-10 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The current fiscal crisis is clearly having a negative impact on our schools. This book offers practical strategies to overcome obstacles and constraints, and is essential for all school leaders." —David Freitas, Professor Indiana University South Bend "This reader-friendly and relatable book speaks directly to the practitioner, offering down-to-earth advice and realistic examples." —David L. Flynn, Director, Commission on Public Elementary and Middle Schools, Adjunct Professor of Educational Administration New England Association of Schools and Colleges, Bedford, MA, and Cambridge College, MA A win-win solution to the battle of the budget Are you challenged to improve your school′s productivity with existing or even diminishing resources? It can be done, and School Budgeting for Hard Times will show you how. Author William K. Poston, Jr. has fought and won many budget battles. He and renowned educator Fenwick W. English, who provides the book′s foreword, contend that the needs of curriculum and learning should drive the budgeting process—not the other way around. The solution is implementing performance-based budgeting. This text gives step-by-step instructions for: Using assessment data to determine budget priorities Applying quality enhancement principles to the process Incorporating measurable performance to attain funding Discover how to do more with less. These proven strategies will help you attain the truly important goals while avoiding the dire cutbacks that threaten local educational systems′ effectiveness.
Download or read book Policy Formation and Resource Allocation written by Brian Caldwell and published by UNSW Press. This book was released on 1986-01 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph, part of a series that critically challenges conventional definitions of school management and school resources, takes the view that the major resources in schools are culture and knowledge. What counts as culture and knowledge in the school is the subject of continuing debate by individuals and groups who articulate different desires, needs, and demands. Guidelines for the management of resources must deal with negotiations among these various groups. The purpose of this monograph is to describe an approach to the management of resources which has the following characteristics in the school setting: (1) resources are managed in a continuous cycle of activity which integrates goal setting, need identification, policy making, planning, budgeting, and evaluating; (2) each phase in the cycle is organized around the major resource of knowledge, with patterns of activity designated as programs which support learning; and (3) a framework is provided within which negotiation about resources may occur, securing appropriate involvement of staff, students, and community. An introductory essay describes a progress account of this approach in government schools in Victoria, Australia, and includes a detailed description of each phase of the cycle. It provides guidelines for two phases, policy making and resource allocation, illustrating the manner in which negotiation may be managed, and lists the benefits of the approach to principals, teachers, parents, and students. Three supplementary readings follow the introductory essay. In the first, tensions among three central values (liberty, equality, and efficiency) of school governance in Western democracies are analyzed by William L. Boyd in "Competing Values in Educational Policy and Governance: Australian and American Developments." In the second, Peter Watkins discusses changed administrative concepts during collective action in Victoria, in "Collective Strategies: Collaborative Approaches towards the Administration of Education." In the third, Walter I. Garms, James W. Guthrie, and Lawrence C. Pierce demonstrate how school districts fail to reflect clientele's interests, in "Reforming Public School Management and Budgeting." Each entry provides references; an annotated bibliography is appended. (CJH)
Download or read book The Self Managing School written by Brian J. Caldwell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-04 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book Tracking Resources For Primary Health Care A Framework And Practices In Low And Middle income Countries written by Hong Wang and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2020-06-03 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The global health community is broadly in agreement that achievement of the health-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) hinges upon both an escalation of the financial resources dedicated to primary health care (PHC) and a more effective use of those resources: more money, better spent. This book introduces and explicates the end-to-end resource tracking and management (RTM) framework, which includes five components that determine effective and efficient financing for PHC: resource mobilization, allocation, utilization, productivity, and targeting.In addition, this book compiles detailed results from the most recent RTM-based resource tracking efforts for PHC in selected countries. This is to demonstrate how the RTM framework can be used to bring a set of separate resource tracking efforts at different stages of flow of funds into a comprehensive process with an end-to-end 'storyline'. In order to build a functional PHC system that addresses access, quality, and equity issues, this book highlights the key (public) financing issues that researchers, technical advisors, and policy makers would need to address in addition to more resources.
Download or read book A Guide for ensuring inclusion and equity in education written by UNESCO and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-05 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Weighted Student Based Funding and Financial Resource Allocation written by Peter Mangla Aloo and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2015-12-29 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the planning and implementation of Weighted Student Funding policy, an equity-driven student-based planning and budgeting policy. It examines four urban district's policy goals, planning and implementation considerations, and how the policy interacted with school sites. While Weighted Student Funding (WSF) has been implemented in several major urban school districts, there are few empirical studies about how WSF policies are derived and implemented. Current efforts to align resources with student need are hindered by a lack of systematic, research-based approaches to selecting and prioritizing criteria. How do district leaders determine funding criteria, weight them, and evaluate their implementation? The author analyzed criteria, data, and weighting processes used to allocate resources to schools through student based funding. The analyses borrowed three equity concepts from inter-district studies to evaluate intra-district criteria for resource allocations: horizontal equity, vertical equity, and equal educational opportunity. Criteria used are evaluated by whether they are mandated or discretionary.
Download or read book The Relationship Between Resource Allocation and Pupil Attainment written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Allocating Health Care Resources written by James M. Humber and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1995-01-11 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In ALLOCATING HEALTH CARE RESOURCES, leading authorities and researchers expose the basic philosophical, ethical, and economic issues underlying the current health care debate. The contributors wrestle with such complicated issues as whether it is ethical to ration health care, the morality of the worldwide bias against children in allocating health care resources, whether sin taxes can be defended morally, and how to achieve a just health care system. The book also includes an insightful analysis of the Clinton health care reform plan. ALLOCATING HEALTH CARE RESOURCES will be of interest to philosophers, health policy experts, medical ethicists, health professionals, and concerned citizens. It serves to clarify and illuminate the logic and rhetoric of health care reform, and so to help us all achieve a fair and equitable distribution of these precious resources.
