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Soares, Louise M.; And Others – Elementary School Journal, 1973
One essential fact emerges from these results: contrary to beliefs of proponents of the middle school, pupils in middle schools consistently indicated significantly lower self-perceptions than pupils in traditional settings. (Authors)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Middle Schools, Self Concept, Self Concept Measures
Burnham, Brian – Orbit, 1971
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Schools, Open Education
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Purkey, William W.; And Others – Elementary School Journal, 1970
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Environment, Elementary Education, Instructional Innovation
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Beeken, Don; Janzen, Henry L. – American Educational Research Journal, 1978
A system of categories organized along the three dimensions of behavior, location, and social setting, was developed and used to obtain recordings of the activity of pupils in open-area schools and traditional schools. (Author/JKS)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Science Research, Classroom Environment, Elementary Education
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Weaver, Roy A. – Teacher Educator, 1976
This review of four schools compares organizational properties to demonstrate that, while methods of control and instruction do vary, pupils are generally fitted to the tempo of the school rather than their own learning speed. (MB)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Educational Practices, General Education, High Schools
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Gildea, Robert – Oxford Review of Education, 1976
The 19th-century mutual education for boys and girls was introduced in Britain from France. It is discussed in the context of economic development, social divisions, and historical traditions. (ND)
Descriptors: Economic Development, Educational Change, Educational History, Elementary Education
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Davies, John L. – Higher Education in Europe, 2001
Assesses the factors that universities need to consider when developing a strategic response to "borderless education," discusses certain instruments which may be used in strategic analysis, and considers some options in the areas of organizational structures, support infrastructure, personnel policy, and quality assurance. (EV)
Descriptors: College Administration, College Planning, Competition, Distance Education
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Roby, Douglas E. – ERS Spectrum, 1995
Compares sixth-graders' math and reading achievement at year-round and traditional schools in the same (Ohio) school district. Uses a randomized, control-group, posttest-only method controlling for the effects of history maturation and pretesting. The statistical and practical results favor the alternative year-round calendar, particularly when…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Elementary Education, Grade 6, Mathematics Achievement
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Freed, Shirley Ann; And Others – Journal of Research on Christian Education, 1994
Four responses to a paper on phonics and whole language approaches to reading instruction in fundamentalist Christian schools examine the home schooling perspective, complexities of different definitions, design of the original research, and need for continued dialog into the bigger picture of traditional education and its staying power in…
Descriptors: Christianity, Elementary Education, Home Schooling, Phonics
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Gura, Mark – Educational Leadership, 1993
Although Jonathan Kozol is well-informed about choice program imperfections, schools of choice are superior to traditional schools. In places like East Harlem, school choice is helping transform youngsters from captive, disenfranchised malcontents to true students involved in their education. The challenge is to make every district school worthy…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Elementary Secondary Education, High Risk Students, Misconceptions
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Deal, Terrence E. – Teachers College Record, 1991
Discusses how private schools differ from public schools, noting how private schools create meaning via cultural attributes and suggesting potential pitfalls in eschewing tradition in response to external pressures. Private schools must understand the balance between tradition and innovation to avoid losing their roots or becoming obsolete. (SM)
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Educational Innovation, Elementary Secondary Education, Institutional Characteristics
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Grunbaum, Jo Anne; Basen-Engquist, Karen – Journal of School Health, 1993
Researchers used the Youth Risk Behavior Survey to examine the prevalence of health risk behaviors of students attending an alternative high school (AHS) and students attending a regular high school (RHS). More AHS than RHS students engaged in health risk behaviors and initiated risk behaviors at younger ages. (SM)
Descriptors: Health Behavior, High School Students, High Schools, Nontraditional Education
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Gorard, Stephen – School Leadership & Management, 1998
Examines factors influencing choice of a new school, using data from a large-scale study in Wales. The "domino effect" sometimes covers three generations; decisions made today reflect, but are not identical to, past decisions. Simple reproduction cannot explain this diversity. Consumer nostalgia may lead schools to conservatism and…
Descriptors: Conservatism, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Influences
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Smith, Bryan – Texas Education Review, 2002
Discusses one private school's adoption of a highly rigorous curriculum that emphasizes western civilization, shunning academic fads in favor of the classics. This course of western studies goes from 5th through 9th grade. The morally informed curriculum is guided by Christian faith and moral standards. In many cases, teachers develop their own…
Descriptors: Conventional Instruction, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Moral Development
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Krafft, Kerry C.; Berk, Laura E. – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 1998
Examined cross-sectional trends and contextual influences in the development of private speech among preschool children in Montessori and traditional classrooms. Found that diminished make-believe play, greater teacher direct involvement, and heightened time spent in transitions largely accounted for a lower incidence of private speech. (JS)
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Comparative Analysis, Inner Speech (Subvocal), Play
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