The goal of Individually Guided Education (IGE) is to produce high student achievement in terms of understanding, skills, and action patterns in various curricular areas, and to contribute to the healthy personal, social, ethical, and civic development of each student. A secondary goal is to promote higher job satisfaction in the school teaching…

Since 1960 black enrollment in independent schools has increased from token numbers to almost five percent the total enrollment of these schools. The purpose of the study was to determine if there was any empirical evidence to support hypothesized relationships between black students' perceptions of their school environments and selected school…

Schools and communities increasingly are being called on to meet the needs of all youngsters-- including those experiencing learning, behavior, and emotional problems. Meeting the challenge is difficult. Efforts to do so are handicapped by the way in which student support interventions currently are conceived, organized, and implemented. Over the…

After more than 10 years into the charter-school movement, a fundamental issue remains to be addressed, according to this paper. The issue reduces the charter movement down to its basic core premise, which is effectiveness. The question for all stakeholders is how effective is the charter-school model. Evaluation within the context of the…

This paper examines how to encourage widespread adoption of comprehensive school-reform models--adoption outside the schools and districts that took part in the development process. It refers to such models as "design-based" schools. The paper defines what is meant by a school design and describes receptive school and district…

Reviews investigations conducted to determine students' attitudes toward (1) graded v nongraded schools; (2) open v self-contained classrooms; (3) program organization and arrangement; and (4) the structure and design of curriculum and instruction. (Author/SJL)

In the late 1970s, Yugoslavia instituted extensive reforms of the structure of its secondary school system. Surveys of high school upperclass and graduate students before and after reform suggest that reforms had little effect on the relationship between socioeconomic status and type of school enrollment or on student attitudes toward work,…

An action research study examined whether students in a multiage "house" design, in which they have the same teacher for three years, have a stronger connection to their school. Identifies dynamics that influence African American students' bonding and discusses how school structure and peer influence can interact to affect students'…

The Talent Development Model for high schools was developed to fill a major current void in American education--the lack of a proven model of high school effectiveness. This report presents the essential components of the Talent Development High School, a model of changes in high school organization, curriculum, and instruction based on research…

Despite current interest with the concept of the "New American School" model discussed in "America 2000," school systems continue to approach educational reform and restructuring by tinkering with key organizational components in isolation. The total school organization requires assessment and profiling to determine which key components are drags…

A. Phillip Randolph Campus High School began in 1979 as a cooperative effort among the New York City Board of Education, the School of Education of the City University of New York, and City College of New York. High school students are able to use the educational resources of City College. The effort has been successful, especially as measured by…

The purpose of this paper is to explicate, analyze and evaluate the strategies used by the school district to improve student achievement. The first section of the report reviews background information about the evaluation program in the district. Subsequent sections of the report describe the manner in which action programs were developed to…

This paper reports on a study of a desegregated Individually Guided Education (IGE) middle school which drew volunteers from throughout a large, midwestern city. Findings are based on participant observation and interviews by the author. The author concludes that the school failed to incorporate all the features of IGE, which calls for alterations…

The purpose of this assessment was to investigate the achievement patterns of black and white students in the Clark County School District since the implementation of the present desegregation plan. For this study, black students who are currently enrolled in the grade levels under study were used for comparison purposes. In addition, a sample of…

The research discussed here had two primary purposes: (1) to replicate a study done by George Weber in which eight factors were hypothesized to make successful schools successful: strong leadership, high expectations, good atmosphere, strong emphasis on reading, additional reading personnel, individualization, use of phonics, and careful…