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Leithwood, Kenneth Arthur – 1986
This survey project of 129 randomly selected school systems in Ontario, Canada, investigates: (1) dominant patterns among secondary principals' practices and their effectiveness in the improvement of school processes and outcomes; (2) differences in practices between elementary and secondary school principals; (3) factors determining secondary…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Administrator Education, Administrator Evaluation, Administrator Role
Download full textLangone, Christine A. – 1984
A study examined the organizational factors inhibiting and facilitating implementation of an innovation in an educational setting. The innovative program selected as the subject of this ethnographic study was Georgia's parenting education program. Data were collected from field interviews of teachers, observations of parenting education classes,…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Change Strategies, Decision Making, Educational Change
Bird, Thomas D.; Little, Judith Warren – 1985
This study examined instructional leadership in eight diverse secondary schools in four urban, suburban, and small-city school districts in one western state. The aim was to gain access to a set of schools that provided both variety in instructional leadership and diversity in school size, organization, grade level, faculty and student…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, Case Studies, Decentralization
Shapira, R., Ed.; And Others – 1981
Issues and developments concerning the education of Israeli youth in residential schools are summarized in this report of a seminar which brought together educators from the United States and Israel. The first part of the report describes the residential school and gives its history as both part of a long tradition, and as it particularly evolved…
Descriptors: Boarding Schools, Compensatory Education, Disabilities, Disadvantaged Youth
National Education Association, Washington, DC. – 1921
A historical review of the institutional beginnings of the Commission on the Reorganization of Secondary Education from 1912-21 is presented, with emphasis on the Commission's objectives to help the American high school become a better instrument of democracy and reflect the highest ideals of American life. In 1921, when this report was written,…
Descriptors: Admission (School), Advisory Committees, Citizenship, Educational Change
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
Wu, Shi-Chang – 1980
No nationally representative study of student suspensions has yet explored why, instead of which, students are suspended and whether suspensions may result from school characteristics as well as student behavior. Using stepwise regression, this study analyzed national data on students' suspensions, misbehavior, antisocial attitudes, perceptions of…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Aptitude, Antisocial Behavior, Centralization
Seattle Citizens School Progress Planning Committee, WA. – 1967
THE SEATTLE SCHOOL PROGRESS PLANNING COMMITTEE REPORTS ITS FINDINGS OF A STUDY OF A LONG RANGE DESIGN FOR CONTINUOUS PROGRESS EDUCATION CENTERS FOR RACIALLY INTEGRATED PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS. THE PLAN WOULD ESTABLISH NONGRADED CLASSES IN PRIMARY, INTERMEDIATE, SECONDARY, AND 2-YEAR COMMUNITY COLLEGE CENTERS WHICH WOULD ALLOW STUDENTS TO PROGRESS…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Community Colleges, Continuous Progress Plan, Curriculum Design
Wheelock, Anne – 1986
Practices of attendance, suspension, and non-promotion in middle schools in Boston (Massachusetts) encourage at-risk students to drop out. School policies and practices, student data, and interviews with at-risk students were reviewed to determine which practices encourage disengagement from school. Personal narratives are included. Major findings…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Attendance, Attendance Patterns, Demonstration Programs
Lindegren, Alina M. – US Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1941
This study deals with a special phase of the education systems of five small nations that have contributed much to the advancement and civilization of mankind. These countries include Denmark, Norway, Sweden, the Netherlands, and Finland. They are highly literate peoples accustomed to self-government and capable of carrying it on effectively, a…
Descriptors: School Organization, Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Cultural Differences
Smith, Iain; And Others – CORE, 1979
A survey of science and English teachers in 10 Scottish secondary schools indicated a complex relationship between a teacher's identity as a subject expert, subject department boundaries, and authority relationships. Teachers felt they had little influence on general school policies. (f=fiche numbers). (CP)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Case Studies, Curriculum Development, Department Heads
Ferriss, Emery N.; Gaumnitz, W. H.; Brammell, P. Roy – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1933
The present study is concerned with the smaller secondary schools, those schools which in the main afford the opportunities for secondary education to the children of the smaller centers of population and rural areas. In order to make the picture as complete as possible, the study has included high schools with enrollments ranging from fewer than…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Secondary Education, Small Schools, School Size
Ainley, John; And Others – 1986
The study reported in this monograph, which was conducted jointly by the Australian Council for Educational Research and the Education Department of Victoria, investigated the organization and curriculum of government secondary schools in Victoria, Australia, and how those factors influence what teachers do and what views students have of the…
Descriptors: Affective Measures, Curriculum Evaluation, Decision Making, Educational Environment
Reavis, William C.; Van Dyke, George E. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1933
In order that we may know where we stand in secondary education, the membership of the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools four years ago took the lead in urging a study. When the members of a committee of this association appeared before the Bureau of the Budget in 1928, they received a very courteous hearing. It was…
Descriptors: Educational History, National Surveys, School Statistics, Secondary Education
Terry, Paul W.; Marquis, William J. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1924
The development of the junior high school as a distinct and separate unit of the public-school system is one of the most remarkable and striking chapters in the history of public education in the United States. From humble beginnings in a few scattered cities the movement has gathered momentum until hundreds of school systems have been profoundly…
Descriptors: School Law, Educational Legislation, State Legislation, Educational Policy
