Nationwide, most public school teachers are paid according to a uniform salary schedule determined by their school or district. While this precludes variation in salaries over teachers of identical qualifications within a school, there is variation across schools in the parameters of the salary...

This paper reports the key developments in Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) in its early years and those that have occurred in the following three decades. It also outlines some of the basic objectives that led to the early developments in DEA and describes related activities that need to...

It is interesting to observe how long it takes to move a powerful new technology from the academic to the practitioners' world and to understand what constitutes acceptance and adoption by professionals.~Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) was introduced in 1978 but has been only sporadically used...