Researchers and other persons interested in promoting research about rural school busing met in Columbus, Ohio, in December 1998. Drawing on that meeting and the rural school literature, this report describes why school transportation is an important issue nationwide, explains the lack of research on rural school busing, proposes a research…

Investigated in this study were relationships between personality characteristics and school environments as predictor variables and high school GPA and personal adjustment in high school as criterion variables. Significant were GPA differences as well as differences among personality groups and high schools when school adjustment was the…

Reports a study undertaken to analyze the ways in which the primary school experience is portrayed in stories for American children between the ages of three and seven, focusing on the roles of minority group members in the stories. (Author/JM)

Presents a new way of looking at school organization, refined through efforts to understand why some free schools have grown and flourished while others have floundered and closed. (Author/JM)

Dicusses the Staples Governing Board which was instituted at Staples High School, Westport, Connecticut, in order to give all members of the school community - students, teachers, and administrators, decision making powers. (DR)

Holds that a good theory of academic failure due to cultural disadvantagement and similar factors must also explain academic success. Reviews a number of longitudinal field studies (including one of the author's own) on successful Negro youngsters. (JM)

Reviews the status of Hispanic education, examines studies of Hispanic students, describes major finance and governance issues in Hispanic education, and explores theoretical models of internal colonialism as a means of understanding the condition of Hispanic education. Proposes a research agenda for Hispanic education. (Author/SB)

Presents a model to help student personnel administrators develop cost effective approaches for improving student retention, based on the marketing process. The marketing model can be used to systematically respond to the needs of students, faculty, and the community. Outlines retention tactics at Prince Georges Community College. (JAC)

Few intellectual and social movements of this century have had so pervasive an influence on the theory and practice of American education as the mental hygiene movement. This movement substantially altered ways of thinking about education, in particular, the school's responsibility for children's personality development. The movement's history is…

Briefly describes the issues in "Powell v. Orleans Parish School Board" and discusses what the court's findings suggest regarding the responsibility of schools for supervising and protecting students involved in school-sponsored, off-campus activities. (PGD)

Most criticisms of American schools are too broad and are off-base. The first criterion in evaluating education should be its contribution to character formation. Students cannot cope with authority figures, rules, and routines; a school structure that teaches them to regulate themselves is needed. (PP)

A typical day's activities at an Israeli kibbutz high school are described: Students live on the school premises, and study, work, and engage in social and cultural activities there. The kibbutz educational system fosters the values of cooperation, equality, and mutual aid. (PP)