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Baker, Bartlett J. – Schools in the Middle, 1997
Argues well-designed middle schools support the physical, social, cognitive, and emotional changes students experience. Promotes a design that is a hybrid of the home-based, child-centered elementary model and the elective-based, campus high school model. Focuses on enabling cross-curriculum, interdisciplinary team instruction in smaller,…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Construction Programs, Educational Environment, Educational Facilities
Carey, Kelley D. – American School Board Journal, 2001
Selecting a site for a new school is an important decision for school board members. To avoid site-selection catastrophes, ask for a report about the planning steps. Document estimates of purchase and development costs; and project budget and a timeline for acquisition, design, and construction. Questions that should be answered are listed. (MLF)
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Boards of Education, Check Lists, Cooperative Planning
Tamang, H. D.; Dharam, K. C. – 1995
Nepal is one of the poorest countries in the world. In 1981 the Education for Rural Development in Seti Zone Project--more commonly known as the "Seti Project"--was part of the Nepalese government's effort to develop a system of basic education in that far western region of Nepal. The early success of the project provided the impetus for…
Descriptors: Building Design, Construction Costs, Construction Management, Construction Materials
Public Education Association, New York, NY. – 1992
"Small Schools and Savings" rebuts the presumption that capital costs of school planning and construction render small schools uncompetitively expensive. Specific options are outlined that can help small schools be cost effective. The false logic of borrowing economies-of-scale arguments from the factory model and applying them to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cost Effectiveness, Economic Factors, Educational Change
Haugland, Maurice – 1987
This paper, which highlights the findings of a recently completed doctoral dissertation, attempts to: (1) identify the desirable professional competencies of superintendents as perceived by South Dakota school board members and superintendents, themselves; and (2) determine which competencies, when performed unsatisfactorily, are the most common…
Descriptors: Administrator Evaluation, Administrators, Board Administrator Relationship, Boards of Education
Rylance, Dan – 1981
Country schools were important in the growth and development of North Dakota. While most of the early schools were constructed of wood, some were constructed of stone, sod, or logs. Standardization was established by 1915, and the white framed one-room school was duplicated in every township of the state until the end of World War II. A former…
Descriptors: Consolidated Schools, Educational History, Educational Improvement, Educational Legislation
Piele, Philip K., Ed. – 1980
In its thirtieth year of publication, this volume is a comprehensive reference to state appellate and federal court decisions affecting the operation and governance of public elementary and secondary schools in the United States. This edition includes all cases relevant to public schools decided during the 1979 calendar year and reported in West's…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Civil Liberties, Collective Bargaining, Court Litigation
McLemore, Bob, Comp.; And Others – 1981
The publication contains tabular statistical data on Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) operated schools during 1977: (1) numbers of Indian children ages 5-18 and over 18 enrolled in school by area, agency, and school status; (2) number of schools operated, by type; (3) enrollment and average daily membership by type of school; (4) boarding school…
Descriptors: Agency Role, American Indian Education, American Indians, Average Daily Membership
COOK, DESMOND L. – 1966
THIS BIBLIOGRAPHIC LISTING OF 109 RELATED ADDRESSES, ARTICLES, BOOKS, MICROFILMS, MONOGRAPHS, REPORTS, AND OTHER ITEMS, PUBLISHED BETWEEN 1959 AND 1968, INCLUDES 39 ITEMS ON NETWORK PLANNING, 48 ITEMS ON RESEARCH MANAGEMENT, 13 ITEMS ON PROJECT SELECTION, AND NINE ITEMS ON PROGRAM MANAGEMENT. (JK)
Descriptors: Administration, Bibliographies, Critical Path Method, Decision Making
Bair, Medill – 1968
In this speech the Superintendent of the Hartford Public Schools proposes some solutions to the problems of urban schooling. He feels that city boards of education should be fiscally independent of municipal governments and that the state should be responsible for organizing school districts to insure integrated education. One of his proposals is…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, College School Cooperation, Community Involvement, Community Schools
Burby, Raymond J., III; Donnelly, Thomas G. – 1977
The primary purpose of this study was to determine whether the development of new, planned communities has resulted in the provision of better schools and educational opportunities than are provided in less-planned suburban developments. The book outlines the steps and stages in planning an educational system for new communities--building new…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Development, Educational Assessment, Educational Finance
Dade County Public Schools, Miami, FL. Dept. of Planning and Evaluation. – 1975
A sample of the general population of Dade County residents were surveyed, by interviews, by an independent research firm during December, 1973 regarding educational goals, major problems confronting the schools and their opinions regarding certain school system programs. It was decided to refine and augment those results by surveying specific…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Attitudes, Basic Skills, Class Size
Ware, Oral Edward – 1976
The recently chartered city of Poquoson, Virginia, has a separate school division that is completely independent from New York County. The division superintendent describes in this practicum the processes involved in planning and constructing a new high school building. A building needs study was the first step followed by the selection of an…
Descriptors: Architectural Programing, Community Support, Construction Costs, Critical Path Method
Bureau of Indian Affairs (Dept. of Interior), Albuquerque, NM. – 1975
Prepared as a program planning tool for participants of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) Chief Area Education Officers 1974 conferences, this initial annual report includes topics discussed during the conferences; conference addressed presented by the Director of Indian Education Programs; conference evaluations; and selected reports presented…
Descriptors: Accountability, Agency Role, American Indians, Annual Reports
Watson, Cicely; Quazi, Saeed – 1973
This text arose out of a practicum course for school planners given by the authors at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. The practicum is the core course of an M.Ed. program, which was designed to prepare planning-administrators for work at the level of the board of education in a system of education such as that of the province of…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Bibliographies, Boards of Education, Educational Administration
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