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Manwaring, Robert – Education Sector, 2010
In 1997, the state of California labeled Markham Middle School as low-performing. Located in the Watts neighborhood of Southeastern Los Angeles, Markham is stuffed with over 1,500 students in just three grades, sixth-eighth. Roughly 70 percent of the students are Hispanic, and 30 percent are black. Eighty-two percent are poor. That year, the…
Descriptors: School Restructuring, Disadvantaged Schools, Intervention, Educational Improvement
Haskins, Jack B. – 1975
Information gathered in the 1974 statewide survey of Tennesseeans' opinions on higher education is compared with similar information gathered in other states. Questions asked concerned confidence in institutions, freedom to teach, quality of education and college type, favorability to increased spending, favorability to institutional expansion,…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Colleges, Comparative Analysis, Educational Finance