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Download full textAhmed, Nuwar – Penn GSE Perspectives on Urban Education, 2013
This article offers the author's views about the business aspects of school administration in the U.S., and discusses the mass school closures in Washington, D.C., New York City, and Chicago. These closures were intended to improve the educational systems within those cities, yet none have benefited from these reforms. She also explains the…
Descriptors: School Closing, Resistance to Change, Cost Effectiveness, Standardized Tests
Peer reviewedStuder-Ellis, Erich M. – Social Forces, 1995
Examination of foundings of four-year women's colleges in three states, 1855-1968, reveals that institutional forces (presence of elite women's colleges, development of Catholic women's colleges, and enactment of the suffrage amendment) increased the founding rate, but rising organizational density later decreased the rate. Argues that…
Descriptors: Church Related Colleges, College Environment, Competition, Educational Development
