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Jones, Robert – 1981
There are four phases to the Deerfield High School (Chicago, Illinois) sex-fair performance evaluation system: (1) a point system allowing students to control 50 percent of their grades through participation and attendance; (2) an ongoing evaluation procedure concerned with determining the contributions of various units of instruction (all…
Descriptors: Athletics, Coeducation, High Schools, Performance Tests
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Marks, Helen M. – International Journal of Educational Research, 2002
This chapter reviews the research on school composition and peer effects from three comparative perspectives--Catholic and public schools, single-sex and coeducational schools, and small and large schools. Most of the research is sociological, focuses on high schools, and draws on national samples. The chapter seeks to discern cumulative trends in…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Catholic Schools, Coeducation, Economically Disadvantaged
United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1911
The purpose of high-school education has generally been twofold--not only to furnish preparation for college, but also to provide some of the elements of a liberal education for those whose formal and directed study is to go no further. In not a few communities high schools were established in which the former purpose was expressly waived; but…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, College Preparation, Mathematics Education, Correspondence Schools
Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1920
This bulletin presents the statistics of private high schools and academies from 1917-1918. This bulletin contains the following sections: (1) Schools; (2) Length of course and term; (3) Instructors; (4) Students; (5) Amount of schooling offered; (6) Graduates; (7) Military drill; (8) Property; (9) Income; (10) Four-year high schools; and (11)…
Descriptors: Educational History, Private Schools, School Statistics, National Surveys
United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1894
This volume contains the remaining two parts of the 1890-'91 Commissioner of Education report. Part II includes: name register; history and status of public kindergarten and ecoles gardiennes in several European countries; statistical summaries of city public schools; secondary schools; higher education; professional schools; education in…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Educational History, Public Schools, Urban Schools
United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1905
Volume 2 addresses German school courses of study, a report on the Chilean Education Congress and Exhibit, U.S. and foreign education necrology for 1902, and profiles of education benefactors and others who have devoted their lives to education. Chapter XXX's miscellaneous educational topics include remarks on education in America, a good urban…
Descriptors: Education, Foreign Countries, School Organization, Urban Schools