This paper describes how the trend toward building new schools on large sites far from existing development centers, called "school sprawl" or "school giantism," can have far-reaching impacts on school children, school districts, and the larger community.Educators and parents express concern that large schools reduce…

One of the strongest arguments made to attract increased support for science for undergraduate liberal arts colleges in the mid- to late-1980s was that the proportion of students obtaining their Ph.D. degrees was larger at these institutions than at their Ph.D. granting university counterparts. This conclusion was supported by later research, but…

This research investigated the impact of school setting and size on the culture and climate of a school. Twenty-five schools and 1,163 teachers were involved in the study. There was a significant negative correlation between school size and the school's culture and climate. Other findings were that elementary schools had more positive climates…

For the most part, education in the United States started out small, but the 20th century brought significant changes. The Industrial Revolution and immigration swelled American cities at the beginning of the century, and urban schools grew along with them. In the 1950s and 1960s, many communities, educators, and politicians focused on…

The document contains tables displaying enrollment data for all spring 1999 sessions at Austin Community College (Texas), with comparisons to the same data for all spring 1998 sessions. The numbers for headcount, demographic, credit hour, contact hour and FTSE data reported were obtained by modifying the mainframe SPSS report to include…

The Secretary of the U.S. Department of Education provides his viewpoints on maintaining strong public support for public education by reaching out to every part of the community. The Secretary urges Congress to act on school modernization. He discusses the emerging focus of architecture that now creates schools as community learning centers and…

Class size is one of the most researched and heavily debated topics in American public education. Currently, at least 25 states have initiated class size reduction (CSR) programs. In the past twenty years, several major studies have been conducted which indicate that smaller class sizes produce an increase in student achievement as well as greater…

American scholarship and higher education today are based on the single structure and strategy of the multiversity. There is reason to believe that for all its successes, the monopoly of the multiversity is becoming dangerously dysfunctional. (Author)

Reports on results of a simulated job experience exercise given to several thousand elementary school principals at a 1970 NAESP annual meeting. The results are presented and compared by sex, geographic region, school size, and city size. (DN)

The large school must organize itself to recognize individual human needs or face continual disruption. The author concludes that the specifics depend upon a constellation of factors inherent in any given situation. (Editor)

Based on an address given at a conference for school trustees in London, Ontario, on March 27, 1969.

Among the results, in a sample of 1,562 ninth through twelfth graders from large and small high schools, it was found that students in the smaller schools were more alienated and participated in more school activities and that their participation was more strongly related to feelings of personal worth. (Author/RH)

Preliminary analysis of data from this study of a limited sample of administrators suggests that most high school principals are not experiencing a high level of stress. There is also some doubt about whether certain techniques for coping with stress are as effective as previously believed. (Author/JM)

The recommendations of James B. Conant in the 1950s led to high school consolidation across the country. Although the surviving small schools have weaknesses, they have benefits as well. (JM)

Renting of schools producing chemists and chemical engineers in 1978 shows little change from 1977 listings. (Author/BB)