Academic deans and presidents' perceptions about the state of college governance was studied. A total of 99 higher education institutions were randomly selected from 9 different types of schools, based on the Carnegie classification. In general, academic deans perceived college governance as undergoing transformations. Most deans perceived college…

This annotated bibliography of 29 citations deals with the significance of extracurricular activities in the total educational process. There is a strong correlation between student involvement in extracurricular activities at the high school level and adult nonacademic achievement in later life. Aspects reported to be positively influenced by…

Most previous research on the social organization of schools neglects to consider that such organization may vary depending on several factors, including size, staff composition, and environment. This study utilized two images of school identified by Corwin: the rational bureaucracy (formally organized social structure in which activities have…

This report offers a framework and conceptual base for a statewide discussion of public school choice. A review of choice activities in other states and an analysis of typical components in a choice program are provided. Organized into four main chapters, the report starts with an explanation of the concept of choice followed by a review of the…

The policy-making and administrative roles of trustees and presidents are distinguished. The level of policy at which trustees should operate is dependent on the college's size and complexity and whether it is public or private. Trustee responsibilities of soliciting funds and selecting a president are acts of implementation in pursuit of a…

Under Broward County's (Florida) decentralized school finance program, each school principal was given $686 per student to operate his school, regardless of the school's size. As a result, small schools were unable to provide the same special services as larger schools, since they could not afford special teachers for physical education, music,…

One of a series of reports on the International Project for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (in Mathematics).

Seventy percent of the public schools in Southwest and West Central Minnesota voluntarily participated in a study of class size and course offerings available during the 1979-1980 school year for grades 10-12. Vocational education and special education courses were not included in the study because of their cooperative nature. The size of classes…

Seven separate reports survey the literature and current thinking in the following topic areas: optimum school and class sizes, organization of schools into appropriate grade-level groups, the benefits and disadvantages of ability grouping, the decline in student achievement as measured by standardized tests, the expansion of kindergarten…

This document divides a cluster of medical schools into seven groups based on percent change in entering class size from 1970-71 to 1973-74. These groups were then used to analyze differences between schools of differing class-size change patterns for 307 varibales drawn from the Institutional Profile System of the Association of American Medical…

This study was initiated because the author believed that the house system in the comprehensive schools of England has elements that could be adapted into many American schools to help personalize education for each student. The house system and its place in the comprehensive school is examined with reference to the general organization of the…

This 1969-70 directory of public elementary and secondary schools provides the names of and basic information on local school systems in the United States and its possessions. In this directory, the listing includes all systems regardless of size, as well as nonoperating public school districts. The main body of the directory lists, in…

Studies reveal that students from small high schools tend to do better at some Wisconsin State Universities, especially at WSU-Stevens Point. However, high school percentile rank, regardless of class size, is by far the best single predictor of academic success at WSU-Stevens Point. The present investigation was aimed at determining if students…