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Author: Tara Jabbaar-Gyambrah Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1475833997 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 112
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Is College a Lousy Investment?: Negotiating the Hidden Cost of Higher Education discusses many of the economic misconceptions about earning a college degree. While it is widely believed that attending college guarantees wealth and success, students, concerned parents, and higher education professionals have neglected calculating the full-range of short-term and long-terms costs. Our work illustrates how the promotion of education merely as a commodity come at a high price for the individual and society. We argue how the idea of ‘investment’ can be expanded from a short-sighted view to engage a broader, more holistic rationale for higher education from which students can expect a full return on investment.
Author: Tara Jabbaar-Gyambrah Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1475833997 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 112
Book Description
Is College a Lousy Investment?: Negotiating the Hidden Cost of Higher Education discusses many of the economic misconceptions about earning a college degree. While it is widely believed that attending college guarantees wealth and success, students, concerned parents, and higher education professionals have neglected calculating the full-range of short-term and long-terms costs. Our work illustrates how the promotion of education merely as a commodity come at a high price for the individual and society. We argue how the idea of ‘investment’ can be expanded from a short-sighted view to engage a broader, more holistic rationale for higher education from which students can expect a full return on investment.
Author: William Deresiewicz Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1476702713 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 256
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Deresiewicz takes a sharp look at the high-pressure conveyor belt that begins with demands for perfect grades and culminates in the skewed applications received by college admissions committees. Students are losing the ability to think independently. College is supposed to be a time for self-discovery-- but the system is broken, and he offers solutions on how to fix it.
Author: Stephen Frank Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 14
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Recently, there has been growing interest in adapting Return-on-Investment thinking to education--sometimes called educational productivity, or academic-ROI. Education leaders do not seek a monetary return on their spending, rather greater student learning, or other outcomes like student citizenship, higher graduation rates, or increased lifetime earnings and career options. Most ROI analysis misses a big opportunity; it is often used to evaluate programs and initiatives, such as comparing two professional development programs. This process leaves out some of the biggest cost drivers in the district's budget and never addresses some of the fundamental resource issues that may actually drive student success. Education leaders need a new approach--a System-Strategy ROI. This approach starts with a fundamental student need and asks not "Which program is better?" but "What resources will meet this need?" School system leaders can help their teams take a System-Strategy ROI approach by structuring the planning conversation around five key steps: (1) Identify the core need: What fundamental student performance need are we focusing on, and what's our theory of change for addressing it?; (2) Consider a broad range of investment options: What are the investments we currently make to address this need, and what else could we do?; (3) Define ROI metrics and gather data: What are the relative returns (costs weighed against benefits) to the set of current/potential options?; (4) Weigh investment options: What other factors do we need to consider, in order to select from among the options?; and (5) Make investment decisions: How can we free resources to do what we want to do? It is important to note that ROI--in any form--is not a magic formula, but the System-Strategy approach is a powerful tool for adding structure, rigor, and data-backed evidence to the difficult decisions a school system must make on behalf of its students. Ultimately, the fundamental question we must ask is, "How can we use all our limited resources strategically to improve student achievement and meet our goals?" This document guides districts toward the goal of aligning school system resources to strategic priorities so that every school succeeds for every student.
Author: Howard Bowen Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351309919 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 507
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The value of higher education has been under attack as seldom before in American history. We are told of the overeducated American, of the case against college, and of the failure of education to contribute significantly to the reduction of inequality. In this environment, republication of an exceptionally comprehensive and judicious analysis of all that has been learned and not learned about the consequences of American higher education comes at a most appropriate time. Investment in Learning more fully covers the various aspects of this subject than any yet to appear. Howard Bowen is optimistic about higher education, but his viewpoint is based on profound knowledge of both the economic and social aspects of education. Unlike some economists who insist on a strict cost-benefit analysis of expenditures on higher education in relation to outcomes, Bowen argues that the non-monetary benefits are far greater, to the point that individual and social decisions should be made primarily on those broader indicators. Cameron Fincher, in his new opening for the book, notes that "Publication of Howard Bowen's Investment in Learning was like a break in a long summer drought. . . . It was a comprehensive rebuttal to return-on-investment studies with negativistic findings." And in the foreword to the book, Clark Kerr simply says, "Howard Bowen is better prepared to survey the overall consequences of higher education in the United States than anyone else."
Author: George T. Friedlob Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 9780471103721 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 254
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Sending an SOS when it comes to ROIs? Help is on the way . . . UNDERSTANDING RETURN ON INVESTMENT Return on investment (ROI) plays a major role in business, but itcan be a difficult concept to grasp. Understanding Return onInvestment shows you how to better utilize this essential tool bysimplifying and clarifying all its important points. Thisinvaluable guide includes information on: * The effect of ROI on investment and disinvestment decisions * The various forms of ROI and how they provide different measuresfor evaluating investment activities * The relationship of ROI to ROE (return on equity) * The use of ROI in evaluating investment centers in adecentralized operation * How ROI is used to evaluate managers * The use of weighted average cost of capital (WACC) in makinginvestment decisions If you use ROI, but are confused or unclear about some of itsdetails, you'll definitely profit from Understanding Return onInvestment, a complete guide to this all-important performanceindicator.
Author: Marwin Britto Publisher: ISBN: 9780838989456 Category : Academic libraries Languages : en Pages : 0
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"Academic Libraries and the Academy is a thorough collection of best practices, lessons learned, approaches, and strategies of how librarians, library professionals, and others in academic libraries around the world are successfully providing evidence of their contributions to student academic success and effectively demonstrating their library's value and worth to institutional administrators and stakeholders. Forty-two case studies are divided into four sections--from beginning assessment work through assessment activities that are more difficult to measure and generally more time- and resource-intensive--to provide practicable ideas and effective strategies for all levels of experience, assessment skills, stages of implementation, and access to resources"--
Author: J. Howard Johnston Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 6
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Education is a top-priority funding area for corporate philanthropy, mostly because corporate leaders recognize that strategic investments in education can have long-term pay off for their companies as well as for students and schools. It is also one of the most visible and effective means for demonstrating a company's commitment to corporate social responsibility (CSR) and branding itself as a good corporate citizen in its communities and among its employees and customers. But educational philanthropy can also be a black hole into which a lot of money can disappear without much obvious effect. Usually, this happens when a company practices "checkbook philanthropy," where money is given without clear goals, strategic alignment with business objectives, or sufficient oversight and accountability. This paper describes the following: (1) kind of returns corporate investors can expect in education; (2) best practices for high impact education philanthropy; and (3) how to get started with education partnerships.
Author: UNESCO International Centre for Technical and Vocational Education and Training Publisher: UNESCO Publishing ISBN: 9231003755 Category : Languages : en Pages : 73
Author: National Research Council Publisher: National Academies Press ISBN: 0309096804 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 507
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Serving as a companion to Growing Up Global, this book from the National Research Council explores how the transition to adulthood is changing in developing countries in light of globalization and what the implications of these changes might be for those responsible for designing youth policies and programs. Presenting a detailed series of studies, this volume both complements its precursor and makes for a useful contribution in its own right. It should be of significant interest to scholars, leaders of civil society, and those charged with designing youth policies and programs.
Author: Tara Jabbaar-Gyambrah
Author: Tara Jabbaar-Gyambrah
Author: William Deresiewicz
Author: Jobs for the Future
Author: Stephen Frank
Author: Howard Bowen
Author: George T. Friedlob
Author: Marwin Britto
Author: J. Howard Johnston
Author: UNESCO International Centre for Technical and Vocational Education and Training
Author: National Research Council