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Pugh, Wesley C. – 1989
Using a microanalytic case study approach, school effectiveness/school improvement strategies in a Northeastern urban public school district are examined. Recent research findings have indicated inconclusive and, at times, negative results related to the implementation of such strategies. The 202,469 students enrolled in 257 schools within the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Desegregation Plans, Educational Administration, Educational Environment
National School Boards Association, Alexandria, VA. – 1987
The National School Boards Association proposed to the United States Department of Education a project, "Building Character in the Public Schools," designed to enhance character development in the schools through involvement of more than 15,000 local school boards in this country. The project had two overall goals: to heighten national awareness…
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Board of Education Role, Boards of Education, Change Strategies
Verheyden-Hilliard, Mary Ellen; And Others – 1978
A kit for parents and citizens' action groups who want to check up on Title IX progress in their local schools and to press for needed changes, gives information about the laws, detailed guidelines for finding the necessary information, strategies for change, and an annotated bibliography. Step-by-step instructions of how to review schools are…
Descriptors: Athletics, Change Strategies, Counseling, Elementary Secondary Education
BUNDY, MCGEORGE; AND OTHERS – 1967
THIS REPORT (THE BUNDY REPORT) PROPOSES A PLAN FOR THE DECENTRALIZATION OF THE NEW YORK CITY SCHOOL SYSTEM WHICH WOULD ALLOW FOR GREATER COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT IN SCHOOL POLICY-MAKING AND FOR EDUCATIONAL INNOVATION AND ADMINISTRATIVE FLEXIBILITY. TO ACHIEVE THESE GOALS THE REPORT RECOMMENDS THAT THE SCHOOL SYSTEM BE REORGANIZED INTO A FEDERATION OF…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Board Candidates, Boards of Education, Community Involvement
California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. – 1980
Students, parents, and school authorities are provided information about various laws and regulations pertaining to public school students in this handbook. Fundamental rights and responsibilities of students, including those described in right to education laws and judicial decisions, are discussed. Discipline policies, continuation schools,…
Descriptors: Confidentiality, Educational Opportunities, Elementary Secondary Education, Freedom of Speech

Klitgaard, Robert E.; And Others – 1979
It was concluded, in an empirical study of distributions of examination scores within secondary schools in Karachi, Pakistan, that intraschool inequalities in student achievement were relatively large; that variables for socioeconomic background and school policy did not explain the intraschool variations across schools; and that a school which…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Differences, Equal Education
Brandt, Ronald S., Ed. – 1979
The authors of this collection of essays make the major points that parental participation influences student performance, and that time spent with parents by school personnel results in better learning. Ira J. Gordon explains four models of parent-school-community relationships and cites research evidence of long-term effects of parent…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Citizen Participation, Compensatory Education, Court Litigation
Mikes, Donald F. – 1969
A survey of 156 institutions using television and other educational media was conducted to determine the extent and nature of contracts or specific policies defining the rights and responsibilities of teachers using educational media. The survey aimed at both discovering present trends in policies and practices and forming a compendium of…
Descriptors: Contract Salaries, Contracts, Educational Finance, Educational Media
Jencks, Christopher – 1966
Although schools have increased influence over the social-psychological development of youth, they do not provide diversity in nonacademic domains. In addition, the apparent diversity among institutions is of little value because institutions are not located or administered in such a way that individuals can choose freely between them.…
Descriptors: Administrative Change, Community Colleges, Decentralization, Educational Improvement
Parker, Lois; And Others – 1977
Designed to assist administrators, teachers, and counselors with the development, implementation, and administration of a student internship program, this administrative handbook begins with a program description of an internship program in Montgomery County, Maryland, in which students are released from school for part of the day or part of the…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Business, Career Education, Career Exploration

Kalamazoo Public Schools, MI. – 1973
Three reports of different task forces from the committee to study sex discrimination in the Kalamazoo, Michigan, Public Schools comprise this document. The first report, from the personnel task force, investigated personnel practices and working conditions in 1972 for the existence of sex discrimination. Questionnaires were distributed to 1,215…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, After School Programs, Bias, Classroom Design
Michigan State Dept. of Education, Lansing. – 1974
These guidelines describe areas of concern as indicated by recent litigation, questions received from local school districts, and complaints received from parents and students. They also present, as a frame of reference, the status of current school law where and as it applies to the area of students' rights and responsibilities. The document is…
Descriptors: Corporal Punishment, Court Litigation, Dress Codes, Due Process
Hollister, Charles A. – 1969
As public agencies created by State legislative mandate, school districts and the officers thereof are obligated to abide by several provisions of the United States Constitution. School boards can reduce many of the sources of current student unrest by complying with these provisions. Courts have held that under the Fourteenth Amendment school…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Activism, Behavior, Board of Education Policy
Dickinson, William E., Ed. – 1969
A 4-day seminar, funded by ESEA Title III, studied the appropriate role of the American school board in the present climate of change, and the future role of the school board. Educational authorities were asked to prepare position papers for the seminar and persons with experience at the local board level were invited to respond candidly to all…
Descriptors: Black Power, Boards of Education, Communication (Thought Transfer), Community Influence
Campbell, Roald F.; Layton, Donald H. – 1969
This monograph studies the policy-making process of public schools at the elementary and secondary levels. Variables include legislative bodies and courts at the local, State, and national levels and special interest groups (e.g., labor unions and religious bodies, professional educators, and qualified voters). Public expectations have contributed…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Centralization, De Facto Segregation, Decision Making