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An Ounce of Prevention, a Pound of Uncertainty: The Cost-Effectiveness of School-Based Drug Prevention Programs

Book by Jonathan P. Caulkins, C. Peter Rydell, Susan S. Everingham, James Chiesa, Shawn Bushway; Rand, 1999

Subjects:

Cocaine Habit--United States--Prevention--Cost Effectiveness, Drug Abuse--Study And Teaching--United States--Cost Effectiveness, Students--Drug Use--United States--Prevention--Cost Effectiveness, Youth--Drug Use--United States--Prevention--Cost Effectiveness

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...be drawn from considerations of cost and effectiveness than just cost-effectiveness. In particular...outcomes beyond the end of high school. Very few consider costs Lipsey, 1997 . Only a handful discuss cost-effectiveness e.g., Connell...
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Contradictions of School Reform: Educational Costs of Standardized Testing

Book by Linda M. McNeil; Routledge, 2000

Subjects:

Education--Standards--United States, School Improvement Programs--United States

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...Publication Data McNeil, Linda M. Contradictions of school reform : educational costs of standardized testing / Linda McSpadden McNeil...pbk. 1. Education Standards United States. 2. School improvement programs United States. I. Title...
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Managing Resources for School Improvement: Creating a Cost-Effective School

Book by Hywel Thomas, Jane Martin; Routledge, 1996

Collections: Education, Entire Library

coming years. The school recruits from a wide area and...by the local authority at a cost of 2.75m. The school has...Fund. This fund also aids the school with some maintainence costs. The school benefits financially from substantial...
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Opportunity Cost in Finance and Accounting

Book by H. G. Heymann, Robert Bloom; Quorum Books, 1990

Subjects:

Cost Accounting, Finance, Opportunity Costs

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OPPORTUNITY COSTS AND FIXED RESOURCES IN...from the opportunity cost principle and rational behavior. Transaction costs may prevent a particular...because of children in school or because of other transaction costs. One of the fixed resources...equipment. The original cost is allocated over the...
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Work and Welfare: The Social Costs of Labor in the History of Economic Thought

Book by Donald R. Stabile; Greenwood Press, 1996

Subjects:

Basic Needs, Cost And Standard Of Living, Economics--History, Externalities (Economics), Labor, Wages, Welfare Economics

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...clung to the wage fund. Despite this stress on individual effort, early members of the marginalist school continued to investigate the social costs of labor. The subjects of this chapter understood Mills message about the obligation for taking care...

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Journal Articles on: school costs

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Costs of Information and Communication Technology in Developing Country School Systems: the Experience of Botswana, Namibia and Seychelles

Journal article by Andrew Paterson; International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology, Vol. 3, 2007

Subjects:

Budgets, Comparative analysis, Cost control, Curriculum development, Industrialized nations, Information storage, Research methodology, School districts, Software utilities, Studies, Technological change

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...because certain costs associated with...incurred at the school level but rather...technical support to schools and as a consequence...did not know the cost of these services...urban and rural schools was obtained...Assuming that ICT costs will tend to increase...the Botswana cost data is likely...slightly underestimate school ICT costs in that country...POPULATIONS OF SCHOOLS WITH ICT In all...
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A Cost Efficiency Analysis of School Districts: Is Larger More Efficient?

Journal article by C. William Garner; Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting & Financial Management, Vol. 10, 1998

Subjects:

Cost analysis, Decentralization, Efficiency, New Jersey, School districts, Size of enterprise, Studies, United States

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...output was the districts average cost per student. The cost data for this study were collected...From these reports, six cost measures were generated from...for 1995-96. The K-12 school districts were divided into...students. In addition, the costs for 14 districts with enrollments...three groups and the number of schools reporting in each group were...
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Pay-to-Play: Fair or Foul? Confronted with Rising Costs and Shrinking Funding, Districts Have Come Up with the Idea of Charging Students to Participate in Extracurricular Activities. According to Ms. Hoff and Mr. Mitchell, There Are Much Better Ways for Schools to Make Their Programs Affordable

Journal article by Dianne L. Hoff, Sidney N. Mitchell; Phi Delta Kappan, Vol. 88, 2006

Subjects:

Education costs--Forecasts and trends, Education--Finance, Education--Forecasts and trends, High schools--Finance, School activities--Evaluation, Student activities--Evaluation

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...education system. So what are schools to do? First, we suggest that school leaders avoid the temptation...threats that, without fees, school sports will have to be canceled. Instead, schools should look for solutions...a profession to establish cost-saving policies across conferences...as sharing transportation costs, eliminating team travel...
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Calculating the True Cost of Private School Education: Based on a Survey of South Australian School Fees

Journal article by T.A. Laws, Brenton Fiedler; Australian Journal of Social Issues, Vol. 37, 2002

Subjects:

Private schools--Prices and rates, Private schools--Statistics, South Australia--Social policy

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...Accordingly, a survey of schools in the Adelaide metropolitan...fees and all ancillary costs were then used to calculate an indexed average cost of private school education over the...14 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 22 Schools Table 4. Indexed average cost of private school fees of surveyed South Australian schools Stratum Average Annual Total Costs for five Compulsory...
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For-Profit and Nonprofit Charter Schools: An Agency Costs Approach

Journal article by John Morley; Yale Law Journal, Vol. 115, 2006

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Agency theory--Analysis, Charter schools--Taxation, Nonprofit organizations--Taxation

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...and routines, and even if a school is performing worse than other available schools, the psychological and emotional costs of removing a child may well...from putting her in a better school. Additionally, parents may be vulnerable to a sunk-cost bias, (64) irrationally...children in underperforming schools because they do not want to...

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Magazine Articles on: school costs

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Taking the "total Cost of Ownership": Concept to the Classroom

Magazine article by Sara Fitzgerald; MultiMedia Schools, Vol. 8, March 2001

Subjects:

Cost analysis, School districts, Technological planning

Collections: Education, Entire Library

Taking the "total Cost of Ownership": Concept...job is done once their schools are wired and theyve...the Purchase For many school districts, the technology...expense of wiring their schools and installing computers...for the long-term costs involved with operating...equipment effectively. If school officials dont provide...all over again. Total Cost of Ownership To address...
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Trimming Costs in Personnel & Health Care: A Suburban School District Pursues Two Promising Approaches for Preventing Employee Expenses from Spiraling Upward

Magazine article by Ronald D. Valenti; School Administrator, Vol. 66, January 2009

Subjects:

Health care costs, Medical care, Cost of, School districts

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...a widespread problem among school districts. Ohios School Employees Health Care Board...adopted a rule mandating every school district conduct periodic...substantial impact on health care costs available through dependent...The Columbus, Ohio, Public Schools recently identified more than...percent from the audit, which cost about $90,000. ILLUSTRATION...
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Calculating the Costs of School-to-work Involvement

Magazine article by Stephen Dolainski; Workforce, Vol. 76, May 1997

Subjects:

Business community, Cooperative education, Costs, Education reform, Internships, Partnerships, Schools, United States, Workforce

Collections: Education, Entire Library

Calculating the Costs of School-to-work Involvement...department to justify the costs of starting a schoolto...theres always a start-up cost for a new venture, getting...program doesnt have to cost a fortune in either financial...started. Secondly, direct costs of these programs for...
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The True Cost of Ownership

Magazine article by Jamie McKenzie; MultiMedia Schools, Vol. 9, November 2002

Subjects:

Cost analysis, Information technology, Innovations, School districts

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...by Jamie McKenzie When most schools and districts install networks...appreciate the wide range of costs accompanying the installation. Some of these will be dollar costs. Some will be organizational and psychic. When major costs and impacts arrive unannounced...business called "The Total Cost of Ownership" (TCO)-a...documented and translated into school terms by CoSN, an organization...
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Outsourcing Special Education Services: An Intermediate Agency in Massachusetts Tries to Contain Costs without Jeopardizing Quality Programs

Magazine article by Anne S. Mckenzie, Anna M. Bishop; School Administrator, Vol. 66, October 2009

Subjects:

Cost control, Outsourcing--Quality management, Teachers--Economic aspects

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...among them Holyoke Public Schools, Everett Public Schools and Oxford Public Schools. Futures also has consulted with more than 120 school districts nationwide and serves...received promised a 20 percent cost savings over current expenditures...to reduce special education costs, but they did not want to...

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Newspaper Articles on: school costs

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District 211 Holds the Line on Summer School Costs No Tuition Increases for Second Straight Year; Sophomore Class Expands

Newspaper article by Chad Brooks; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), January 21, 2007

Subjects:

College costs, Higher education costs, School districts

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Holds the Line on Summer School Costs No Tuition Increases...increase this year, the cost is staying the same...and activity camps will cost $30 a semester. Special...enrichment program will cost $195 for the entire...education. Included in the costs are a number of mandatory...
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Donors Defend School's Jesus; Private Funds Pay Legal Costs to Save Painting

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, August 17, 2006

Subjects:

Costs (Law), High schools, Legal fees

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Donors Defend Schools Jesus; Private Funds Pay Legal Costs to Save Painting. Byline...WASHINGTON TIMES A divided school board in West Virginia has...display in one of its high schools that has been there for more...picture at Bridgeport High School, if $150,000 in private...
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Sex Abuse Victim Now Faces Court Fight over Legal Costs; Abuser: Ex-Principal Leo Hickey Louise OKeeffe: Abused after Attending School Music Lessons

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), June 12, 2008

Subjects:

Costs (Law), Legal fees, School violence, Sexual abuse

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Faces Court Fight over Legal Costs; Abuser: Ex-Principal Leo...OKeeffe: Abused after Attending School Music Lessons. Byline: Paul...was sexually abused at primary school by her principal nowfaces a...wasprincipal of Dunderrow National School in Kinsale in the 1970s. However...
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[Pounds Sterling]4bn BILL TO MEND BROKEN SCOTLAND; Crisis over Soaring Cost of Repairing Crumbling Roads, Schools and Wards; 'Skimping on Roads Is a False Economy '

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), July 6, 2011

Subjects:

Health care costs--Economic aspects, Medical care, Cost of--Economic aspects, Road construction industry--Economic aspects, Road construction industry--Finance, Schools--Economic aspects, Schools--United Kingdom

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...SCOTLAND; Crisis over Soaring Cost of Repairing Crumbling Roads, Schools and Wards; Skimping on Roads...Scotlands crumbling roads, schools and hospital wards is set to...from previous generations; schools, colleges, universities...classrooms, with a quarter of school and council buildings in poor...
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{PRINCIPAL JAILED OVER $1.8M Fraud} {School Swindle Costs Govt $1.8M}; Christian College Founder Sentenced to 3 Years Prison

Newspaper article; Tweed Daily News (Tweed Heads, Australia), March 2, 2010

Subjects:

College costs, Fraud, Higher education costs, Universities and colleges

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...8M Fraud} {School Swindle Costs Govt $1.8M}; Christian...financial mismanagement of the school and conviction for defrauding...students who were no longer at the school after it ran into financial difficulties. By May 2007 the school was unable to pay its teachers and when a Christian Schools Australia accountant found...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: school costs

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Marshall, Alfred

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...theories and made new analyses in the same manner, thus laying the foundation of the neoclassical school of economics. He was concerned with theories of costs, value, and distribution and developed a concept of marginal utility. His Principles of...
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Bush, George Walker

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...nationwide standardized testing for public school students. President Bush was also unusual...of the slowly recovering economy and the costs of the Iraq invasion and occupation produced...subsequent credit crunch and a rise in energy costs, this resulted in a recession that began...
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North Carolina

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Univ. and the North Carolina School of the Arts, at Winston...were effected. The Public School Law (1839) inaugurated free...centralization, taking over the public school system and the supervision...counties could no longer meet the costs. Expenditures for higher education...to integration in the public schools following the Supreme Courts...
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United States

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...the Philippine Insurrection (1899 1901) cost more American lives and dollars than the...In 1991 it was estimated that it would cost taxpayers $500 billion to save the industry...Jeffords of Vermont from the Republican party cost it control of the Senate, a setback due...
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Laissez-Faire

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...interests. The so-called Manchester school of economics, especially Richard Cobden...consumer prices by eliminating the high costs of competition. In that way, the emphasis...Fundamental Doctrines of the Manchester School (1903, repr. 1968); A. W. Coats...

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