Outlines how the district consolidated the city's seven high schools into three complexes. Includes discussion of the assignment of students, staffing changes, and the public relations program that accompanied the change. (IRT)

This phenomenological study of school consolidation is an investigation of how education policy that dictates the reorganization of schools and districts impacts educational choices, learning environments, and school culture. Although quality studies of optimal school size for promoting student achievement and cutting costs have emerged in the…

Describes how, after a decade of recession and years of declining college enrollments, Japan--the country with the world's third-largest economy--is asking its universities to merge. (EV)

Discusses the for-profit education sector's rush to consolidate. Large, publicly traded schools are looking to expand their businesses, while smaller schools are finding it hard to maintain growth or expand on their own. (EV)

Examines the factors that motivate colleges and universities to merge and the extent to which these factors are unique to merger or also motivate other forms of inter-institutional cooperation. Develops a taxonomy of inter-institutional combination and of the factors that induce institutional behavior towards cooperation. (EV)

Consolidation has dramatically reduced the number of school districts in the United States. Using data from rural school districts in New York, this article provides the first direct estimation of consolidation's cost impacts. We find economies of size in operating spending: all else equal, doubling enrollment cuts operating costs per pupil by…

The Tongue River Elementary School in Ranchester, Wyoming, has faced the friction of bringing in students from other schools, school district consolidation with no written curriculum, and low test scores. How the school survived and prospered is described. (MT)

Case studies of multipurpose schools built in two school districts after a consolidation. (NI)

Six small Arkansas school districts consolidated to improve the quality of education and to give citizens more value for their taxes. Citizens in all six communities approved construction under the same roof of a new elementary school and a new high school. Students' tests scores have improved, the dropout rate has declined, and more graduates are…

Describes the recent trend toward collegiate mergers. Six mergers of higher education institutions were announced between November 200 and March 2001, with another three in negotiations. Mergers represent the last effort by an institution to salvage some of its identity before having to close completely, and many small schools are seeing the…

Discusses the growing trend of small colleges merging with larger ones and details successful behavior in four steps of the merging process: agreeing to agree, investigating, negotiating "at the table," and signing the deal. (EV)

This volume is the first to comprehensively examine Chinese's affirmative action policies in the critical area of minority education, the most important conduit to employment and economic success in the People's Republic of China after the economic reforms begun in the late 1970s. This book contains four parts. Part I, "Debating China's…

During the 2004-2005 school year, Community Consolidated School District 146, in Tinley Park, Illinois, embarked on a journey to become more familiar with the National Educational Technology Standards (NETS). This journey culminated with the launch of a comprehensive WebQuest for third graders about the American Revolution. The detail that sets…

The use of mergers in Australia's higher education to tackle systemwide as well as local institutional problems is discussed. Complications arising from the situation in which some sectors of higher education are controlled at one government level and funded at another are examined. (MSE)

While metropolitan school systems are moving toward decentralization and personalized instruction, rural America is still being coerced into consolidations and district mergers. The Annenburg Rural Challenge, a force for nontraditional reform, is sponsoring bold, community-based initiatives aimed at transforming teaching and learning in genuinely…