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Kelly, Gail P. – 1984
One of a series of papers on comparative education, this report considers curriculum and student life under colonialism through an examination of school knowledge in French West Africa in the first decades of the twentieth century. The monograph is divided into three parts. Part one describes the educational system of interwar West Africa. It…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Admission (School), African History, Colonialism
Download full textSWANSON, J. CHESTER; AND OTHERS – 1966
A STUDY OF VOCATIONAL-TECHNICAL EDUCATION IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF MISSOURI, COMMISSIONED BY THE GOVERNOR, CONCERNED THE AVAILABILITY, THE CLIENTELE, THE CURRICULUM, THE RELATION OF ENROLLMENT TO EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES, THE INVOLVEMENT OF PERSONS OUTSIDE THE SCHOOLS, AND ANCILLARY SERVICES OF THESE PROGRAMS. ITS OBJECTIVE WAS TO PROVIDE THE…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Adult Vocational Education, Career Guidance, Educational Planning
Stemnock, Suzanne K. – 1974
Professional opinion and major research studies on the recommended sizes for school and school districts are summarized in this review. Definitive recommendations are not attempted, but the review does provide educational decision-makers with an insight into the thinking of others on these questions. The first section of the two-part study reviews…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Bound Students, Decentralization, Educational Research
Governor's Study Commission on the Public School System, Raleigh, NC. – 1968
This 1968 report synthesizes information obtained by the Governor's Study Commission on the Public School System of North Carolina, during their comprehensive 1-year study to determine the most suitable means for providing full educational opportunity for the children of North Carolina. Public hearings and research conducted by the commission, its…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Curriculum Development, Early Childhood Education, Educational Finance
Damyanovich, Mike; And Others – 1992
Technology, directed to each of the parts that collectively give shape and direction to the school, should provide the critical mass necessary to realize the specifications for the New Designs for the Comprehensive High School project. Learners should have access to personal productivity tools that increase effectiveness and efficiency in the…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Educational Change, Educational Development, Educational Innovation
Rickabaugh, James R.; And Others – 1992
The cost factors involved in the New Designs for the Comprehensive High School project were compared with the traditional operating costs of a comprehensive high school in the United States. The high school cost analysis was based on expenditure profiles developed by the Educational Research Service (ERS). ERS data were manipulated to derive an…
Descriptors: Cost Estimates, Educational Change, Educational Development, Educational Finance
LeTendre, Gerald K. – 1993
This article reviews the existing anthropological and sociological evidence on school choice and educational stratification in Japan. Traditional linear models developed in the West have given little insight into how stratification processes actually occur. There must be analysis of the institutional linkages and organizational cultures of schools…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Decision Making, Educational Attainment, Educational Environment
Hanson, E. Mark; Brown, Michael E. – 1977
Patterns of problem-solving activity in one middle-class urban high school are examined and a problem solving model rooted in a conceptual framework of contingency theory is presented. Contingency theory stresses that as political, economic, and social conditions in an organization's environment become problematic, the internal structures of the…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Case Studies, Data Analysis, Educational Administration
Klausmeier, Herbert J.; And Others – 1968
This description, based on experience with multiunit organization in Wisconsin and Ohio schools, constitutes a structural and procedural model for elementary school instruction and related environment. A background appraisal, provided as a context in which to view the new organization, takes the form of a paralleled itemization of the functions of…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Beginning Teachers, Educational Research, Educational Trends
Altschuld, James W.; Baker, Dale – 1971
This elementary school evaluation checklist covers organization and administration, curriculum and instruction, pupil services, staff personnel, instructional materials and equipment, school and community relations, evaluation and research, and physical facilities. "Yes-no," short "fill-in," multiple choice, and rating scale type questions are…
Descriptors: Accountability, Check Lists, Counseling Services, Educational Philosophy
Peer reviewedTodman, John; And Others – Educational Studies, 1990
Considers problems wrought by protracted and potentially disruptive research conducted in school environments. Seeks to reconcile researcher and school interests. Presents a case study research project in which designating a teacher as a research assistant prevented many problems. Stresses maintaining cooperation and the importance of schools…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Cooperation, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
Thurston, Paul – 1983
Renewed attention on educational quality is forcing educators to consider experimenting with new organizational structures for achieving public school objectives. Eight recent reports on the state of public precollegiate education in the United States address the need for better educational quality. Although the eight reports vary in emphasis,…
Descriptors: Administrators, Basic Skills, Computer Science Education, Consolidated Schools
Boruch, Robert; And Others – 1983
High-priority mission areas concerning schools are identified that are appropriate for research and development centers supported by the National Institute of Education (NIE). This draft summary report to the director of NIE focuses on the study of schooling, including subject content, teachers and their preparation, school organization and…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Curriculum Evaluation, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Assessment
Raiche, Joseph J., Ed.; And Others – 1983
This synthesis of recent literature on school effectiveness offers educators empirical research on which to base plans for staff development and school improvement. The introduction notes the limitations of effective schools research and points out its potential to clarify thought about schools. A section on instruction reviews research on…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Change Strategies, Classroom Environment, Educational Administration
Wisconsin Center for Education Research, Madison. – 1985
The programs and publications of the Wisconsin Center for Education Research from 1980 to 1984 are listed and described in this document. The center's efforts focus on the study of the nature and effects of diversity among students. The research program adds to knowledge about how children learn, how they are taught, and what characterizes…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Class Organization, Cognitive Development, Cultural Pluralism
