The Buckley Amendment is viewed as a logical step in the development of the privacy movement. (Author)

In 1973 the Student Center for Educational Research was created at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst to find ways of using student talent, with the help of interested faculty, in teaching and research. Center studies have dealt with student governance, athletic and housing problems, and activities have included an internship program,…

The problem of academic dishonesty is festering on campuses across the nation. On most campuses a student-managed honor system is the sole mechanism for enforcing the integrity of the academic process. This monograph examines the many perspectives the problem presents and is designed to be used by a broad cross-section of the institutional…

This report examines how indoor air quality (IAQ) affects a child's ability to learn and provides several case studies of schools that have successfully addressed their indoor air problems, the lessons learned from that experience, and what long-term practices and policies emerged from the effort. The report covers the effects from…

The historical shifts in United States discourses of school architecture as they relate to reforms and inventions of new pedagogical techniques are examined using Michel Foucault's conceptualization of "governmentality" and related scholarship. The purpose is to question assumptions underlying two claims currently being made about school…

This report summarizes lessons learned from the Quest project. Data sources include a group interview with Quest staff, formative-evaluation reports, summative-evaluation case studies, and project research reports. One lesson learned concerned the importance of school leaders to the success of reform implementation. Schools with supportive…

This paper utilizes a literature review and survey as the basis for comments about the influence of schoolyards on academic learning and child development. The researchers find that school grounds form an important albeit under-utilized part of the built environment. School grounds have a positive impact on social development, academic…

This book examines issues of school safety and how safety issues have developed in recent years, presents in-depth discussions of each of seven standards of school safety, and raises a variety of legal, policy, and specific safety questions that educators and citizens might ask. The book examines six perspectives or ways to think about school…

This paper addresses the student commons area in terms of its use as a social space for student or instructional space, and covers the common design principles that all commons areas should have. Included are brief comments on educational trends that have fostered the growth of commons areas. Highlighted design principles that should be included…

Two operational models for dealing effectively with needs in urban commuter institutions of higher education are described. (Editor)

Explores present and possible future uses of the union model for students in their roles as university employees, as students, and as a third party affected by staff-university or faculty-university collective bargaining. (Editor)

Describes how one principal solved the problem of an invasion by 300 juvenile thugs'' at his quiet, suburban junior high school campus in Baltimore, Maryland. (EA)