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Howley, Craig B.; Pickett, Diana; Brown, Peter; Kay, Laura – Critical Questions in Education, 2011
In this report, the authors characterize the differences between those interviewed who "loved school" and "those who did not." For this comparison, they created two sets of comparison groups: (1) interviewees divided into upper and lower halves on one item, "I loved school"; and (2) the top and bottom quartiles on the…
Descriptors: Adults, School Attitudes, Positive Attitudes, Negative Attitudes
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Howley, Craig B.; Howley, Aimee; Larson, William – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 1999
A survey of 604 principals of suburban and rural schools in Ohio and West Virginia found that suburban Ohio principals showed less interest in traditional-consensual approaches to planning, whereas rural Ohio principals showed less interest in the new technicist approaches. Suburban West Virginia principals favored the new technicist approach,…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Educational Change, Educational Planning, Elementary Secondary Education
Howley, Craig B. – 1999
Previous studies found that the small size of schools or school districts mitigated the negative influence of poverty on academic achievement in California, Alaska, and West Virginia. The Matthew Project extends this research in four additional states selected to provide varied settings. Ohio is a very diverse, urbanized state with a large…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Correlation, Economically Disadvantaged, Elementary Secondary Education