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Muth, Nicole – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Technology rich learning environments provide the potential for engaging, relevant, and personalized curricula that prepare students for 21st century careers. However, a lack of strategic planning by educators results in available technology not being used to its fullest potential. Several educational organizations have published guidelines for…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Protestants, Private Schools, Technology Planning
Nordin, Virginia Davis; Turner, William Lloyd – Phi Delta Kappan, 1980
The motivation for founding and maintaining nonpublic schools appears to be more than racial prejudice. Many evangelical Protestants have come to believe that the public schools now espouse a philosophy that is completely secular, perhaps even antireligious. (Author/IRT)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Enrollment Trends, Parochial Schools, Protestants
Gose, Ben – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2002
Using the example of Denver Seminary, discusses how evangelical seminaries are gaining enrollment--unlike their mainline Protestant counterparts--through aggressive recruiting as they try to stave off financial woes. (EV)
Descriptors: Church Related Colleges, Enrollment Trends, Financial Problems, Protestants
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Constien, Victor A. – Lutheran Education, 1978
Lutherans maintain more schools than any other Protestant denomination. Together with other nonpublic schools in the Council for American Private Education, they foster relationships, gain support, and are involved in planning and carrying on education. (JMF)
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education, Enrollment Trends, Moral Values
Sikkink, David – Education Matters, 2001
The old stereotype of "fundamentalist" Christian schools as rigid and insular must be abandoned. The pressures of mainstream culture and market forces, combined with internal differences in religious style and governance, have created a wide diversity of Christian schools that contributes to the public good. (MLH)
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Conservatism, Cultural Influences, Diversity (Institutional)
Morse, H. N.; Eastman, E. Fred; Monahan, A. C. – United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1913
There is a great need of accurate information in regard to educational conditions in rural communities throughout the country. The ordinary statistics of rural schools and other agencies of education and their results give only averages and fail to tell the truth about any particular agency or result. Much good would come from a complete…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Rural Education, Counties, Rural Schools
Carson, Arthur L. – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1961
Because of close relations between the Philippines and the United States in the earlier years of this century, developments in the Philippines since that country achieved its independence in 1946 are of particular interest to Americans. An important aspect of the island nation's efforts in its first 15 years of complete self-government is the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Vocational Education, Foreign Countries, War
Carson, Arthur L. – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1961
Because of close relations between the Philippines and the United States in the earlier years of this century, developments in the Philippines since that country achieved its independence in 1946 are of particular interest to Americans. An important aspect of the island nation's efforts in its first 15 years of complete self-government is the…
Descriptors: Educational History, War, Politics of Education, Economic Factors