Although there has been sizable growth in the number of empirical studies of shared forms of leadership over the past decade, the bulk of this research has been descriptive. Relatively few published studies have investigated the impact of shared leadership on school improvement. This longitudinal study examines the effects of distributed…

American schools are faced with complex and deep-rooted challenges such as poverty, discrimination, weak school-family relationships, low student motivation, and high student mobility. These challenges must be overcome if children and youth are to meet their needs for belonging, mastery, independence, and generosity; experience social competence…

Discusses open admissions in Britain: the need for alternatives at different levels, interinstitutional cooperation on structure and syllabi, transferability of credit, and student mobility. (PG)

Oklahomans are looking to their colleges and universities as avenues through which the diversification of the state's economy and economic salvation can come about. The challenge to higher education is identifying qualified students, and identifying their teachers who can assist them in making wise choices in planning their college careers. The…

Race-related differences in reading achievement and reading progress were studied in a public elementary school. Two different groups of students were followed over a five year period. No significant racial differences in reading progress were found for those students who stayed within the school for three to four years. The reading achievement…

The migration patterns of college and university students in Virginia are described in relation to other states, public and private institutions, male and female students, student educational level, the migration deficit, and future migration patterns. Based on 1968 statistics the out-migration of Virginia students exceeds the in-migration of…

This study reports preliminary data on student flow for Alabama colleges and universities, summer and fall terms, 1972. Data are presented for sources of entering freshmen, undergraduate transfer students, and graduate students. (MJM)

This report presents the results of the annual survey of geographic origins of permanent residence of all first-time credit course students attending the State University of New York during the 1971 fall term. Part one presents summary tables of first-time students by institution and permanent residence. Part two indicates the permanent residence…

This document is a delineation of student enrollments for the fall semester 1972 from the 42 accredited Kentucky colleges and universities. The enrollments are aggregated by institution, state, foreign country, and Kentucky resident students by county of origin. A few general findings related to the overall enrollment characteristics of the…

Movement in Australia's tertiary sector--between and within higher education and vocational education and training--is a key feature of Australia's post-compulsory education system. This report investigates the extent and nature of student traffic between the two sectors, nationally and in South Australia from 1997 to 2002. Movement from…

A major problem in measuring student success in postsecondary education is the difficulty in tracking students' progress as they transfer from one institution to another. National studies have shown that more than half of students attend more than one institution in their pursuit of a bachelor's degree. This study examined existing state-level…

Dropout rates are particularly problematic measures for Hispanic youth. One-third of Hispanic adolescents are foreign-born. Their sending countries tend to have much lower rates of secondary school completion than does the United States. This digest presents recent tabulations on the number of Latino high school dropouts, noting pitfalls in…

Even as individual colleges and universities work to make their own general education programs more coherent, fewer and fewer students proceed through those programs according to plan. Students frequently say that their general education programs add up to an assortment of fragments to be assembled and then left behind. How should the educational…

The Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) Neighborhood Schools Initiative (NSI) appears to be making incremental progress towards its twin goals of increasing neighborhood capacity and reducing busing, although results are mixed in this 2002-2003 report, the third year of NSI implementation. Reported findings include: (1) Thirty-nine percent of all…