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Marsh, J. Patrick; Petersen, Jeffrey C.; Judge, Lawrence W. – Physical Educator, 2021
The health and athletic performance benefits of strength training for adolescents have increased the demand for the development and use of strength and conditioning facilities (SCFs) within the high school setting. Despite the growing prevalence of these facilities, research on high school SCFs is limited. Therefore, the purpose of this study was…
Descriptors: Physical Fitness, Muscular Strength, Athletics, High School Students
Monahan, A. C. – United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1914
"Consolidation of schools" is the term used when two or more school districts are made into a single district, one school in one building replacing two or more small schools in several buildings. In some States when but two schools are replaced by one, the new school is called a "union" school, the term "consolidated"…
Descriptors: Educational Facilities, Rural Schools, Small Schools, Consolidated Schools
New Visions for Public Schools, 2005
The New York City Department of Education, like other urban public school systems, is facing the task of reforming many large high schools that have had graduation rates under fifty percent for many years. With new federal sanctions for failing schools under the No Child Left Behind Act, many schools nation-wide that have been prominent…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, High Schools, Public Schools, Federal Legislation
Reason, Paul L., Comp.; Tankard, George G., Jr., Comp. – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1959
This handbook is a guide to property accounting for local and State school systems. It classifies and defines the specific items of information about land, buildings, and equipment that need to be comparable among local school systems and among States, and presents additional terminology essential to their effective use. As such, it is concerned…
Descriptors: Educational History, Guides, School Accounting, Educational Finance
Abel, J. F. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1923
The second national conference on consolidation of rural schools and transportation of pupils was called by the United States Commissioner of Education and held at Cleveland, Ohio, February 26, 1923. Twenty-three States were represented. Those in attendance included State commissioners of education, rural-school workers from State departments of…
Descriptors: Consolidated Schools, Conferences (Gatherings), Rural Schools, Administrator Education
Johnson, Lamar – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1933
This manuscript reports a study of the secondary-school library. The library, it is claimed, exists first to improve the curriculum, and second, to encourage reading as a leisure-time occupation. The purposes of this investigation are: (1) to list and describe activities and devices used in outstanding secondary-school libraries; (2) to present…
Descriptors: Educational History, National Surveys, Secondary Schools, Secondary School Students