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Gewertz, Catherine – Education Week, 2006
This article discusses an instructional development system called "holistic" approach, a strategy to improve high school education in Chicago. The initiative includes new curriculum materials, aligned to district standards, as well as assessments and ongoing teacher coaching and training that are designed for the curriculum. The design…
Descriptors: Secondary School Curriculum, Instructional Development, Holistic Approach, Educational Change
Education Development Center, Inc., Newton, MA. – 1981
Eighteen major research projects on education and schools in the United States are described in this report. Foci of these projects include: (1) curriculum and classroom environments that make for effective learning; (2) the development of approaches for improving educational quality; (3) basic values in American education; and (4) restructuring…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Curriculum Development, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education
Passow, A. Harry – 1977
This monograph examines James B. Conant's works on American education. Emphasis is placed on three major works--"The American High School Today: A First Report to Interested Citizens,""Education in the Junior High School Years," and "The Comprehensive High School: A Second Report to Interested Citizens." Attention is…
Descriptors: Comprehensive Programs, Curriculum, Educational Assessment, Educational Improvement
Chaffee, John, Jr., Ed.; Clark, James P., Ed. – 1976
This publication is a summary report of a national conference cosponsored by the U.S. Office of Education and the National Association of Secondary School Principals to discuss current concerns in secondary education. The report includes adaptations of general session addresses, reports on each of the 20 workshops, and articles on the general…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Articulation (Education), Conference Reports, Cultural Pluralism
DuBois; Florence – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1923
The statistical survey in this bulletin includes a general summary of the statistics showing the enrollment in public and private schools and institutions of various types, the estimated expenditures for those schools in 1919-20, the distribution of teachers among those schools, and certain combined statistics of public and private high schools…
Descriptors: Statistical Surveys, Expenditures, Financial Support, School Schedules
Phillips, Frank M. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1925
The statistical survey in this bulletin includes a general summary of the statistics showing the enrollment in public and private schools and institutions of various types, the estimated expenditures for those schools in 1921-22, the distribution of teachers among those schools, and certain combined statistics of public and private high schools…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Schools of Education, Special Education, Special Schools
Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1923
The statistical survey presented in this bulletin includes a general summary of statistics, showing the enrollment in public and private schools and institutions of various types, the estimated expenditures for those schools in 1919-20, the distribution of teachers among those schools, and certain combined statistics of public and private high…
Descriptors: State Programs, Urban Schools, Rural Schools, Nursing Education