This study of a junior high school and its four feeder elementary schools was designed to assess the economic, the educational, and the social impact of a year-round school (YRS) program. The authors conclude that the YRS program was an unqualified success. The summary of the three assessments is quite positive with regard to the economic impact,…

This study of faculty stress used data from the Higher Education Research Institute (HERI) survey administrated in the 1992-93 academic year. The total data set includes survey information from more than 43,000 faculty at nearly 300 higher education institutions in the United States. For this study, data for 29,064 full-time teaching faculty were…

In an attempt to correlate effective school practices with actual observed student achievement, a survey instrument concerning principal leadership and school climate was distributed to classroom teachers in the Oklahoma City Public Schools. Responses by more than half of the teachers yielded 1,294 usable questionnaires representing all 94 schools…