White Papers
Federal Funds for Education: A quick reference to 24 key programs.
Christine Papaianopol — Friday, January 02, 2009
As the federal fiscal year drew to a close on September 30 2009, Congress passed and the President signed into law, a Continuing Resolution (CR) for FY09 Appropriations that established FY 09 spending levels through March 6, 2009, funding all education programs at FY 08 levels. Read More »
Decision 2008 - Part III
Christine Papaianopol — Friday, December 19, 2008
A series of interviews specifically designed to help education marketers understand how educators make decisions, where they look for resources for their classroom and information that influences their decision making process. Part III is an interview with a suburban high school teacher in the West teaching Journalism and English for the past 25 years. Read More »
Decision 2008 - Part II
Christine Papaianopol — Friday, November 14, 2008
A series of interviews specifically designed to help education marketers understand how educators make decisions, where they look for resources for their classroom and information that influences their decision making process. Part II is an interview with a librarian and media specialist with over 15 years experience teaching in a suburban school district in the Midwest. Read More »
Decision 2008
Christine Papaianopol — Tuesday, September 23, 2008
A series of interviews specifically designed to help education marketers understand how educators make decisions, where they look for resources for their classroom and information that influences their decision making process. This first interview is with a high school biology teacher with almost 20 years experience teaching in a rural school district in the Midwest. Read More »
Educational Back-to-School Plans
Christine Papaianopol — Tuesday, August 05, 2008
As part of QED’s 360o Education Marketing Solution, QED recently conducted a survey of education businesses that explored what the education marketplace has planned for the 2008-2009 back-to-school season and school year. Respondents provided valuable insight into their marketing plans and helped to provide a benchmark for back-to-school plans. Read More »
Response to Intervention – A Path to Educational Reform?
Anne Wujcik — Thursday, November 22, 2007
Language in the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) of 2001 and the more recent Individuals with Disabilities Act of 2004 (IDEA 04) have given rise to widespread interest in Response to Intervention (RtI) in states and school districts across the country. In essence, RtI is a teaching process designed to bring better instruction to all students, using research-based curricula proven to result in successful outcomes. Read More »
Gallup-McKinley County Schools - A Technology Profile Of One New Mexico School District
Quality Education Data (QED) — Thursday, September 27, 2007
QED’s white paper on Microsoft Settlement Funds somehow landed on a desk in the technology office of Gallup-McKinley County Schools in Gallup New Mexico this spring. The paper, which states that $15.4 million in vouchers had been mailed to New Mexico schools last fall raised eyebrows. Gallup hadn’t received its vouchers. So Lindy Swain, the district’s Technology Support Teacher called QED. We gave her the settlement administrator’s phone number. Not long after, Swain called back with good news. Read More »
2007 EdNET Case Study
Quality Education Data (QED) — Saturday, June 16, 2007
For 19 years, EdNET has attracted company presidents, vice-presidents, marketing directors, product managers, sales executives, and top educators from around the country. Attending organizations have the opportunity to sponsor EdNET giving them greater visibility with attendees and a chance to highlight themselves as leaders in the industry. Texas Instruments has been a long-time sponsor of the annual EdNET Industry Awards program for six years. Read More »
May 2007 Postal Rate Increases
Quality Education Data (QED) — Monday, May 21, 2007
On March 19, 2007 the Governors of the United States Postal Service approved most recommendations made by the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) with most new rates going into effect May 14, 2007. Overall, the rates were approved at a slightly lower rate than the Postal Service had requested. The impact of the rate increases is uneven with the letter-shaped mail rate approved at a lower rate than requested, but the flat-shaped mail rate approved at a rate that was higher, and in some cases significantly higher than requested. Read More »
Microsoft Settlement Funds - Particularly Sweet In a Time of Tight Tech Budgets
Quality Education Data (QED) — Thursday, February 15, 2007
Federal technology grants to states peaked at $700.5 million in 2002. Since then it’s been a downward slide for the popular program. By 2006, funds for ed tech grants had dropped to $272 million, and the President’s ’07 budget recommends zero funding. With a new Congress that could change. Nevertheless, the Microsoft settlement money some states are reaping is particularly sweet in a time when not much else is on the table. Read More »