Single-sex education describes a diverse range of situations, including individual classes, programs after school, required programs, voluntary programs, and programs to remedy gender inequities and encourage cultural and racial pride. This brief addresses the genesis and legality of single-sex classrooms, the merits and critiques of single-sex…

Examines the relationship among two types of student alienation and middle schools organized with teaching teams and junior high schools organized along traditional lines. The findings fail to support notions that teacher teams in middle school organization enhance student identification with their school or reduce feelings of powerlessness any…

Reseachers collaborating with international colleagues should consider cultural, structural, and interpersonal/interprofessional factors that impinge on the process. Before embarking on collaboration, researchers should understand each other's interests, seek funding for face-to-face meetings, and learn about each other's culture. (SK)

Educational opportunity in the United States and Mexico is an important factor in the process of expanding social and economic opportunities, as well as political and civil rights in both countries. Yet, by national and international indicators, many Mexican American and Mexican children are underserved by public schools in both countries; and…

This paper, written from an organizational perspective, begins with an examination of the deficiencies of knowledge utilization and educational change literature. It suggests the explication of descriptive and heuristic conceptual dimensions as one approach for facilitating a descriptive perspective of knowldge utilization. The efficacy of three…

The author criticizes as inadequate the study of educational organizations based on theories that do not analyze schools themselves and proposes the development of organizational models of schools. The argument builds on Kenneth Boulding's typology of knowledge, which offers neutral middle ground in the debate between phenomenological and…

This article provides an evaluation of the rationale for, and impact of, setting with English classes in the second year of secondary school in one Scottish authority. The Council's education department has a long-standing policy of mixed-ability classes in English for the first two years of secondary school (S2). A number of schools approached…

TO INVESTIGATE, DESCRIBE, AND EVALUATE THE ORGANIZATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF GUIDANCE IN TEXAS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TO RELATE THESE CHARACTERISTICS TO THE PRINCIPALS' CONCEPTS OF GUIDANCE, A THREE-PART QUESTIONNAIRE WAS DEVELOPED, TESTED, AND MAILED TO 359 ELEMENTARY PRINCIPALS. THE QUESTIONNAIRES ELICITED GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE…

This paper discusses differences among schools in their readiness for organizational development interventions. The author begins by outlining criteria for organizational success. He then discusses two variables that have been found important in assessing readiness to profit from organizational development; i.e., readiness for collaboration and…

It is clear that the development and refinement of a theory is a continuing exercise that both shapes and is shaped by parallel developments in methodology, and data collection and analysis. (Author)

The speaker notes specific areas in which research needs to be done on student alienation, teacher alienation, and the organization of teaching that helps create teacher alienation. (IRT)

Since educational organizations must constantly change to meet the demands of a changing society, educational administrators might look to the social sciences for help in managing change and innovation. This paper argues that an organizational approach to educational innovation is likely to be more successful than an individualistic approach.…

This study examined teachers' sense of powerlessness within two distinctive school organizational structures. Definite patterns of teacher sense of powerlessness were uncovered within Authoritarian and Collegial school structures. In addition, a majority of teachers in Authoritarian schools experienced a greater sense of powerlessness than did…

Discusses a study undertaken to compare attitudes among children who became middle school pupils in their own junior school building and children who made the transition to a comprehensive school. Findings indicated that students moving to a comprehensive school were more likely to experience problems. (DB)