Based on a review of the literature, this paper objectively examines the key issues surrounding the implementation of year-round education (YRE) at the elementary level in public schools. Following the introduction, statement of the problem, and definitions, the fourth section provides a history of year-round education in the United States. The…

Surveys were conducted to investigate contemporary thought regarding organizational practices at the elementary level, with particular attention to identifying the extent to which departmentalization was supported by research and actually employed in 24 elementary schools in the Midwest and in 41 Des Moines elementary schools. Four committees…

The six chapters of this publication describe primary education in Bangladesh. Chapter 1 traces the development of primary education through British, Pakistani, and post-independence periods. Chapter 2 briefly reviews constitutional and legal mandates for primary education in Bangladesh. Chapter 3 describes the general organization and…

TEAM TEACHING ATTEMPTS TO SPREAD TEACHER COMPETENCE TO AS MANY CHILDREN AS POSSIBLE, TO INSURE MORE EFFECTIVE TEACHING THROUGH A VARIETY OF METHODS OF GROUPING, AND TO UTILIZE INTERESTS AND TALENTS OF EACH TEACHER TO THE FULLEST EXTENT. ORGANIZATIONAL PATTERNS SHOULD VARY FROM SCHOOL TO SCHOOL, ACCORDING TO THE NEED AND INTERESTS OF THAT SCHOOL.…

This paper offers reflections on the collaborative development of a school/university partnership so as to provide insights into the inherent challenges and successes of such work. It focuses on The Learning Connections Lab (LCL), which began in 1997. The LCL was a partnership between St. Cloud State University and two elementary school sites. To…

Senior Inspector for Primary Education in Manchester, England explodes some of the myths concerning "open education" in the English School System. (CS)

Data were collected from students in grades 6-8 in five schools to determine the impact of school organizational structure on: (1) students' number of reported opposite race friends; (2) evaluations of close White and Black friends; (3) school interracial climate; (4) quality of school life; and (5) frequency of observed cross race interactions.…

The effects of streamed (ability-grouped) v tracked (heterogeneously-grouped) classes on student self-esteem, academic self-concept, sociometric choice and attitude to the school environment were studied, using sixth-grade pupils in eight Sydney, Australia primary schools. Socioeconomic variations in the results are discussed. (SJL)

Surveyed fifth-graders and school staff in 117 elementary schools regarding school processes and outputs. Found that the open systems and human relations models provided the best-fit statistics and explained the most variance in achievement progress, followed by the rational goal model. Explored implications for effective schools research and…

Findings from a study of 42 Israeli elementary schools indicate that schools which adopted technological innovation (open education) were characterized by significantly more of the organizational processes associated with the self-renewing school than when schools which adopted managerial (the management team) or multilevel (the management team…

This practicum project used organized professional development to increase involvement of teachers at a preK-8 school in the school's reform process. All members of the school community actively participated in planning, data collecting, and sharing of pertinent reform information. The 3-month staff development intervention consisted of three…

The adoption of a school-based management/shared decision-making administrative process (SBM/SDM) was recommended for the Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) school district in June 1990. Findings of a study that determined the attitudes of three non-Chapter 1 elementary school communities in Philadelphia toward the adoption of SBM/SDM are presented in…

Findings of a study that examined change in four elementary schools (members of large urban public school systems located in the south and southwest sections of the United States) from a conventional to a participatory model of school organization are presented in this paper. To compare teacher roles before and after implementation of the…

The basic model of concepts and measures developed for the Principal-Teacher Interaction Study is described. School organizational climate and contextual variables were defined to be consistent with the work of researchers in industrial and military settings. Many of the variables were generic to any type of organization. The model and variables…

The purpose of this study was to observe and describe the functions, processes, and relationships of shared decision-making in the Instruction and Research (I & R) units of multiunit Individually Guided Education (IGE) elementary schools. Data for the study were gathered through interviews and observations of 16 I & R units at 8 IGE…