The small schools literature began with the large-scale quantitative studies of the late 1980s and early 1990s that firmly established small schools as more productive and effective than large ones. These studies confirmed various benefits of small schools--higher academic achievement, increased student satisfaction, and fewer dropouts and…

Applied communication research should be used by communication professors, communication departments, and colleges as an important tool for strengthening their relationships with their communities, students, and communication practitioners. Professors spend a great deal of time doing research and teaching people about research. Public…

Educational buildings relate to their environment in many ways that affect the surrounding community such as overall appearance, energy consumption, and waste production. This report examines these issues and identifies how educational buildings can contribute to the conservation and protection of the environment. It explores these issues in three…

For years many educators have advocated school conditions that maximize human intellectual and creative potential, yet today's schools can be intellectually depressing. After identifying and describing factors that influence teachers' attitudes and experiences in education, this document explores three school climate conditions that facilitate the…

As students grow and develop, schools should be able to respond and provide an appropriate education for them. Six continua are involved in the educational development of a student: organization of knowledge, source of curriculum ideas, purpose of curriculum, learning processes, role of the teacher, and role of the student. These continua can…

Eight alternative educational programs that are part of the Portland, Oregon, Public School District are reviewed in this report. Responses from principals and program coordinators at each school to a comprehensive questionnaire provide information concerning staffing, student characteristics, facilities, course offerings, expenditure per student,…

Provides insights into what children, 5-18 years of age, think about themselves, adults, their schools and families, as gathered from interviews and questionnaires. (ED)

Considering both family and educational influences on socialization processes of a child, the author specifically examines school learning as a critical transition and gives observations of the familial process at the time of leaving school. (ND)

In this article performance based teacher education was discussed as the method for providing teachers with the competencies needed for reducing and eliminating sexist practices in their classrooms. (Author/RK)

A pilot project in Montgomery County, Maryland, indicates that youngsters with severe emotional disturbances can be placed successfully in the public schools and can even join the regular classes of their peers. Cost per pupil is high, but may not be greater than the cost of providing separate educational facilities. (Author)

A discussion of a small community in northern Israel which asserts that a basic difference between kibbutz and a city is a total integration on the kibbutz of work, education, leisure, and living missing in most urban areas where parents must travel to work; several processes by which increased integration between parents' work and childrens'…

A few of the most obvious differences between Black students' and schools' expectations relative to learning styles, value systems, communication habits, and interpersonal interactions were explored. (Author/RK)

This article focuses on misrepresentation and the exposure of universities to legal liability for innocent, fraudulent or negligent statements by academics or administrative staff made to students or prospective students. A greater public awareness of consumer rights through media coverage of damage awards, speculative actions by lawyers, and a…

Two hundred and sixty questions and answers on the rights and responsibilities of Virginia youth are presented in this document. Questions and answers are presented in these 12 categories: transportation; juvenile justice; drugs; education; employment; financial responsibility; sexual conduct; health; parental responsibilities; family planning;…

This booklet informs teachers, administrators and other educational personnel about how students learn to regulate their own behaviors, which kinds of behavior are pertinent to successful learning in schools, and what processes can bring about agreement on behavioral standards among students, parents and school personnel. A review of theory and…