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Matthew Round – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2024
Teachers in Lady Agatha's Boarding School (Lady Agatha's) find teaching Sex and Relationships Education (RSE) uncomfortable. This paper investigates one aspect of the discomfort that they feel, namely the impact RSE has on their professional status as teachers. I use focus group data to reflect on the professional and personal location of teachers…
Descriptors: Boarding Schools, Sex Education, Professionalism, Reputation
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Ekaette, Samuel Okpon; Ekpenyong, John A.; Owan, Valentine Joseph – Pedagogical Research, 2019
The study investigated school characteristics and enrolment trend in upper basic schools in Akwa Ibom State Nigeria from 2008-2016. Two research questions were answered while two null hypotheses were also tested. The study adopted a descriptive survey research design. Census technique was adopted in selecting all the 227 public upper basic schools…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Institutional Characteristics, Enrollment Trends, Junior High Schools
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Cary, Michael S. – Teachers College Record, 1991
Describes Deerfield Academy's recent process of changing from a single-sex to a coeducational school. Though some students and teachers resisted the change, most adapted well and enjoyed the new atmosphere. The school community believes that Deerfield should not settle for anything less than a full coeducational status. (SM)
Descriptors: Boarding Schools, Coeducation, Educational Change, Equal Education
White, Mathew A. – International Education Journal, 2004
Subjugated to the anachronistic rhetoric of nineteenth century literature, Australian boarding schools are habitually depicted as the remanence of a pre-colonial era. These images continue to be dominated by the paradigm of cruelty popularised by Tom Brown's School Days. This paper analyses the aspirations and attitudes of a study group of…
Descriptors: Social Systems, Student Attitudes, Boarding Schools, Cultural Pluralism
National Association of Independent Schools, Boston, MA. – 1990
This report summarizes information provided by 870 National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) active member schools (in existence over 5 years and located in the United States or U.S. territories) surveyed in the spring of 1990. Information, which is supplied in narrative form and in 46 statistical tables, includes tuition, teacher salary,…
Descriptors: Administrators, Boarding Schools, Coeducation, Day Schools
National Association of Independent Schools, Boston, MA. – 1989
This report summarizes information provided by 854 National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) active member schools surveyed in the spring of 1989. It includes tuition, teacher salary, and administrator salary data for the 1989-90 school year. Data are reported in an aggregate manner according to common classifications of school type,…
Descriptors: Administrators, Boarding Schools, Coeducation, Day Schools
National Association of Independent Schools, Boston, MA. – 1986
This report is compiled from information provided by National Association of Independent Schools member schools in a 1986 survey of school tuitions and staff salaries. Of the 900 schools in the United States and Canada that were surveyed, 853, or 94.8 percent, responded. The report is organized in five sections. Section 1 summarizes survey results…
Descriptors: Administrators, Beginning Teachers, Boarding Schools, Coeducation
National Association of Independent Schools, Boston, MA. – 1987
This report is compiled from information provided by National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) member schools in a 1986 survey of student and staff counts and financial operations. The first section summarizes survey results from 1982-83 to 1986-87 on enrollment and number of member schools, financial aid, and financial operations data in…
Descriptors: Boarding Schools, Coeducation, Day Schools, Educational Finance