This study evaluates how welcoming thirty American cities--the twenty-five largest and five smaller "hotspots"--are to "nontraditional" problem-solvers and solutions. It assumes that the balky bureaucracies meant to improve K-12 education and hold leaders accountable are so calcified by policies, programs, contracts, and…

AN INVESTIGATION WAS MADE OF THE PREPARATION AND PERFORMANCE OF 880 PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS IN THE STATE OF INDIANA. THIS IS THE TOTAL NUMBER OF TEACHERS WHO RECEIVED THE BACHELOR'S DEGREE FROM ANY OF THE 24 INDIANA COLLEGES OR UNIVERSITIES WITH STANDARD ACCREDITATION FOR TEACHER EDUCATION IN THE CALENDAR YEAR 1954 AND WHO WERE TEACHING IN INDIANA…

The Rural Educational Environment (REE) is a complex mixture of demographic and economic forces that interact to impact the rural school corporation. The condition of REE financial and human capital indicates REE health and may influence student performance on standardized tests. This paper proposes an ecosystem model of the impact of financial,…

To examine the perception of instructors who teach in prison college programs, two studies were conducted, the first in 1993 and the second in 2003. Three areas of measurement were included in the survey instrument sent to professors working in the Ball State University's Prison Program, Muncie, IN. The first measurement was that of instructors'…

This paper discusses a procedure for diagnosing adult educational needs, which the author developed and tested for her doctoral dissertation to study the work performance of attendant supervisors at a mental retardation facility. She describes the methodology used as ethnographic research, which entails an analytic description of a culture by…