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Jones, Rebecca – American School Board Journal, 1994
Children from three elementary schools share what they like and do not like about school. Solicited letters and drawings praised teachers, field trips, and attractive surroundings. An unsolicited letter signed by seven fifth graders complained about yelling teachers and deficiencies in the fun and food departments. (MLH)
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Elementary Education, Learning Activities, Student Attitudes

Sproull, Lee S.; Zubrow, David – Educational Administration Quarterly, 1981
A survey of 116 central office administrators in over 50 public and private school systems in western Pennsylvania examined the administrators' use of test data and other information on organizational performance. Respondents' preferences for nontest data lead the authors to suggest a new model of administrators' usage of performance information.…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria, Information Needs, Management Information Systems
Hranitz, John R. – 1989
This document reports on the qualities of a good urban teacher as perceived by urban early childhood and elementary school teachers in 1988. A review of the educational literature indicates that the characteristics of good teaching reflected the time period in which the teachers lived and were prepared. This study focused on preschool, substitute,…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers, Individual Characteristics, Literature Reviews
Pennsylvania State Library, Harrisburg. – 1983
This report of the 95-member Council for the Comprehensive Plan for Libraries, which included representatives from government, libraries, and the public sector, is not intended to answer all the questions for all those concerned about the future of libraries, but rather to bring focus to the issues and to set a direction for solving the problems…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Library Administration, Library Cooperation, Library Materials
Miller, Leann R. – 1984
State and national data were used to examine whether Pennsylvania students are part of a national trend of decreasing higher achievers' scores and declining higher order skills. Data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reports and the Pennsylvania Educational Quality Assessment (EQA) were examined. Analysis indicated that…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education, Longitudinal Studies
Cooley, William W.; Pomponio, Debra – 1993
Discussion of inequity in funding of Pennsylvania schools has tended to focus on differences between wealthy and poor school districts. In Pennsylvania, 180 school districts have filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the existing public school funding scheme. A study of the state's 500 school districts, grouped by market value of…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Finance Reform, Financial Policy, Financial Support
Lindsay, Carl A. – 1980
An attempt is made to clarify the language of the Adult Education Act of 1966 to yield operational criteria for identifying its goals within a needs assessment/treatment framework. Criteria for general and special target populations are set forth. Singled out are the group of those with four or less years of formal education and those determined…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Programs, Adult Students, Adults