August 2014

Evaluating education quality in terms of ISO9000 standards

  While nations measure the quality of educational systems by different standards, many nations, such as China, have adopted the ISO9000 quality standards to assess the quality of schools. This article explores the various elements of the the ISO 9000 standards and how each element relates to the various groups that are consumers or stakeholders in the educational process. The authors then develop a model to...

Author(s): Cheng Fengchun, Linda R. Vogel and Zheng Zhaoyu

August 2014

An examination of the impact of safe school funding on the incidences of violent behaviors in the school environment of a rural and urban school district

  The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of additional revenues for safe school programs and services on the incidences of violent behaviors in the educational environment of a rural and urban school retrieving data from the fourth and final calculation of the Florida Education Finance Program (FEFP) for the 2001 to 2002, 2002 to 2003, 2003 to 2004, school years through the Florida Department of...

Author(s): Robert Malone Jr, Elizabeth K. Davenport, Brian M. Hickey and Melvin Robinson