A good deal of evidence now suggests that a strong sense of community in schools has benefits for both staff members and students, while providing a necessary foundation for school improvement. This digest in Spanish provides an overview of the literature on schools as communities. The digest identifies the elements of community schools, the…

A Florida study examined differences in energy uses in two adjacent portable classrooms to determine if these types of facilities can be made more energy efficient through retrofitting. Retrofitting included an efficient lighting system, new air conditioners, and reflective white metal roofs. Data show the white metal roofing reduced roof,…

This document presents 101 solutions to global climate change. These solutions are actions that are well suited to every level of society. This book creates awareness about global climate change. The history of Earth and the greenhouse effect are discussed, and explanations and solutions to global climate change are provided including traveling…

Organizational culture has an incredible function and is an incredible function, as it is both product and process, and effect and cause. Within an investigation of tertiary students' perceptions of the fairness of educational assessment using grounded theory methodology, it became apparent that it was important to consider the influence of course…

Examines the organizational climate for student input-output to decision and policy making in Wisconsin colleges and universities through use of the Organizational Climate Descriptive Questionnaire. Student leadership training and student-institution relationship are discussed and analyzed. (NJ)

A general conclusion can be drawn that the values of teachers and their perception of the values of the principal are more positive or higher in inner city elementary schools characterized by a more open organizational climate than in schools with a closed organizational climate. (Authors)

Authors discuss the results of a study that concentrates on the discontented attitude on the part of students toward school and its objectives, expressed in a manner that threatens the codes of conduct, written or implied, and disrupts the orderly process of education. (Author/RK)

Based upon personal experience as a curriculum director in a large suburban school district, the author offers seven general guidelines one can follow to produce the desired climate. (Author/CB)

Concludes, both from a review of medical literature and from a laboratory experiment, that overloading roles can exert a harmful effect on the health of overloaded individuals and that all organizational roles exert their most harmful effect on those individuals who experience the lowest job satisfaction. (MK)

A discussion of the problems and limitations concerned with organization development, which is simply a planned and continuous process of cultural" change within organizations, involving structure, management, and decision making. The author discusses the forces shaping of OD and its future. (Editor/JB)

Measures of satisfaction and performance collected at three week intervals for 86 graduate students, indicated support for the Porter-Lawler (satisfaction follows performance) as opposed to the human relations model (performance follows satisfaction). In addition, self esteem was found to moderate the relationship between performance and…