This survey report relates and analyzes the results of an exhaustive survey study of the status of theater in U.S. high schools. The report is divided into six sections. Part 1 is a general description or "snapshot" of the status of educational theater. Part 2 takes a look at the people who teach theater. Part 3 is an examination of…

Summarized are the results of a survey conducted at Purdue University of nine different engineering schools regarding the programming languages and expertise needed by their undergraduates. (CS)

Designed as an overview of the progress of middle schools in the last two decades, this document compares results from a 1968 survey that sampled 10 percent of middle schools with at least three, and not more than five grades, and including grades 6 and 7, with those of a similar 1988 survey. Following a brief summary of the origins of the middle…

This dissertation summary discusses a study to determine the instructional competencies required by teachers of mainstreaming educational programs for handicapped secondary students. It also sought to establish the preferred staff development strategies and to identify the appropriate educators to conduct the retraining activities. Questionnaires…

This report contains current figures, obtained from Educational Research Service, Inc., on salaries paid to principals and assistant principals in 1,217 school districts nationwide. Four sections of tables are presented: 1983-84 data organized by school district enrollment, per pupil expenditure, and geographic region; and trend analysis comparing…

Tenure practices in science and engineering (S/E) departments in universities and 4-year colleges with tenure systems were estimated, based on a 1978-79 survey of member institutions of the Higher Education Panel of the American Council on Education. The survey findings were designed to help assess the effect of the tenure system on the number of…

Results of a survey on unions representing clerical workers at the largest public and private U.S. universities are summarized. The incidence of strike activity among these unions and the degree of organizing activity in universities where clerical workers are not represented by unions were determined. It was found that most of the unionization of…

This manual is designed to familiarize data users with the procedures followed for data collection and processing of the base-year school component of the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88). A corollary objective is to provide the necessary documentation for use of the data files. The manual provides a wide range of…

This first in a series of bulletins on trends and projections presents past and projected enrollment trends in public elementary and secondary schools from 1965 to 2000. Enrollments in regular elementary and secondary schools from the Center for Education Statistics' Common Core of Data Survey were used to develop the projections. For the…

The status of university financial reporting was surveyed as an update of a 1976 survey. Of the 100 financial reports analyzed in 1976, 87 were available in 1980, and 39 additional private college reports were assessed. In addition to comparing 16 financial reporting standards used in reports between 1976 and 1980, public and private university…

This dissertation summary discusses a study to investigate the elementary school teacher role and its concomitant expectations as perceived by principals and teachers. Teachers were surveyed as to how they perceived their own roles and what they thought principals perceived the roles of teachers to be. Principals in those same schools were…

Results of a study of salary and compensation methodology utilized in academic collective bargaining agreements are presented. Attention was focused on 207 agreements in effect at 134 two-year colleges and 73 four-year colleges. Six structural components of salary were assessed: a payment method, salary structure, faculty typology, chairperson's…

Graduation rates and numbers of graduates for spring 1981 through 1985 are presented in seven figures and five tables along with related enrollment information. Data were provided by the Center for Education Statistics' Common Core of Data Surveys derived from administrative records in each state. The graduation rates reflect the number of public…

A study was undertaken in the winter and spring quarters of 1980, addressing aspects of the baccalaureate application, admission, advising, and graduation processes at the General College of the University of Minnesota, a nontraditional postsecondary education program. Among the issues addressed were these: the distribution and trends of…

This document reports on a project conducted to seek previously uncollected information on Catholic colleges and universities with respect to institutional demographics and programs being used to increase diversity. The project goals also included exploring the impact of Catholic identity on these programs and testing the hypothesis that the…