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Estimating The Determinants Of Pupil/Teacher Ratios: Evidence From The Schools And Staffing Survey, Lawrence O. Picus Apr 1994

Estimating The Determinants Of Pupil/Teacher Ratios: Evidence From The Schools And Staffing Survey, Lawrence O. Picus

Educational Considerations

There have been very few studies of how school districts spend money and allocate resources.


Funding Public Education Based On The Concept Of Cost Of Living, R. Craig Wood, David C. Thompson Apr 1994

Funding Public Education Based On The Concept Of Cost Of Living, R. Craig Wood, David C. Thompson

Educational Considerations

The vast majority of education finance researchers would concede that cost of living issues are legitimate variables for any education finance distribution program.


Table Of Contents And Editorial Information For Vol. 20, No. 2, Spring 1993, Chad Litz Apr 1993

Table Of Contents And Editorial Information For Vol. 20, No. 2, Spring 1993, Chad Litz

Educational Considerations

Table of contents and editorial information for Vol. 20, no. 2, Spring 1993


Lateral Entry To Teacher Education: Impact On Labor Quantity, Quality And Student Equity, Bettye Macphail-Wilcox, Lynn K. Bradshaw Apr 1993

Lateral Entry To Teacher Education: Impact On Labor Quantity, Quality And Student Equity, Bettye Macphail-Wilcox, Lynn K. Bradshaw

Educational Considerations

At one extreme are those who contend that the successful completion of a teacher preparation program is an indicator of quality.


Dealing With Diversity: School Choice, Race, Sparsity, John A. Brown, Jess E. House Apr 1993

Dealing With Diversity: School Choice, Race, Sparsity, John A. Brown, Jess E. House

Educational Considerations

To the extent that our nation continues to grow farther apart economically and racially, the practical implication for education is that all reforms become more difficult.


A Rhetorical Legacy For Leadership: Humor ., Jane Clark Lindle Apr 1993

A Rhetorical Legacy For Leadership: Humor ., Jane Clark Lindle

Educational Considerations

This article treats humor as one of the rhetorical arts which educational leaders must possess to facilitate problem solving among teachers, students, and parents.


Educational Leadership And The Development Of The Moral Imagination, Robert Craig Apr 1993

Educational Leadership And The Development Of The Moral Imagination, Robert Craig

Educational Considerations

Programs in educational leadership ought to include processes to develop the moral imagination, as well as courses which offer the theoretical and practical underpinnings of educational leadership.


Legislative Commentary: An Analysis Of Kansas Due Process Hearings 1977-1992 Support For Special Education Inclusion, Jane Adams Apr 1993

Legislative Commentary: An Analysis Of Kansas Due Process Hearings 1977-1992 Support For Special Education Inclusion, Jane Adams

Educational Considerations

School administrators are challenged to respond and meet the needs of an increasingly diverse student population, including minority, poor and disabled students. Now is the time for school administrators to apply their knowledge of the law and their understanding of democratic principles to support school diversity and lead staff in developing equity within their own classrooms.


A Historic And Current Sketch Of Indigenous Education In Hawaii: With Emphasis On Funding, John A. Thompson Apr 1993

A Historic And Current Sketch Of Indigenous Education In Hawaii: With Emphasis On Funding, John A. Thompson

Educational Considerations

While it is unfair to blame education for all problems, there seems little doubt that the drive to Americanize the schools had an effect on a native culture which varied greatly from a western style.


Educational Considerations, Vol. 20 (2) Full Issue, Chad Litz Apr 1993

Educational Considerations, Vol. 20 (2) Full Issue, Chad Litz

Educational Considerations

Educational Considerations, vol. 20 (2) Spring 1993 - Full issue


Second Career Teachers: Work Motivations, Nancy H. Ellis Apr 1993

Second Career Teachers: Work Motivations, Nancy H. Ellis

Educational Considerations

Although attention has been focused on the projected teacher shortage caused by the lack of bright young people entering the teaching profession, little has been written about those people who leave positions in other professions to pursue teaching as a second career.


Requirements For Collaboration With Schools: Public And Private Leaders Speak Out, Kathryn S. Whitaker, Richard A. King, James A. Lowham, Mary Norby-Loud, Paul Sueltenfuss Apr 1993

Requirements For Collaboration With Schools: Public And Private Leaders Speak Out, Kathryn S. Whitaker, Richard A. King, James A. Lowham, Mary Norby-Loud, Paul Sueltenfuss

Educational Considerations

If organizations are truly to collaborate, rather than merely cooperate, there will necessarily be a sacrifice of autonomy as they share visions, resources, decisions, and accountability.


Not "Rambo," Not "Hero": The Principal As Designer, Teacher And Steward, Richard Andrews, Bill Berube, Margaret P. Basom Apr 1993

Not "Rambo," Not "Hero": The Principal As Designer, Teacher And Steward, Richard Andrews, Bill Berube, Margaret P. Basom

Educational Considerations

If we are to create schools that are generative and proactive places designed to fulfill the dual purpose of enculturation and equal access to knowledge, we must attend to the leader behavior of school principals.


Table Of Contents And Editorial Information For Vol. 20, No. 1, Fall 1992, Chad Litz Sep 1992

Table Of Contents And Editorial Information For Vol. 20, No. 1, Fall 1992, Chad Litz

Educational Considerations

Table of contents and editorial information for Vol. 20, no. 1, Fall 1992


A Comparison Of Principals' Perceptions Of Desired And Actual Participation In The Building Level Budget Decision Process, Barbara Y. Lacost, Mailyn L. Grady Sep 1992

A Comparison Of Principals' Perceptions Of Desired And Actual Participation In The Building Level Budget Decision Process, Barbara Y. Lacost, Mailyn L. Grady

Educational Considerations

The data suggest that principals desire greater involvement and decentralization of the budget process.


A Search For Variables That Affect School Climate In Hawaii, John A. Thompson, Sandra Young Sep 1992

A Search For Variables That Affect School Climate In Hawaii, John A. Thompson, Sandra Young

Educational Considerations

While climate is a somewhat global concept involving a generalized perception of a school by its publics, the question remains as to whether there are variables within the context which are related to, and may have some explanatory power in, determining climate scores.


An Operational Look At Federal Impact Aid: The West Point Highland Falls Example (Revised), John R. Curley Sep 1992

An Operational Look At Federal Impact Aid: The West Point Highland Falls Example (Revised), John R. Curley

Educational Considerations

This is an analysis of funding changes in the Federal Impact Aid program and the effect on the Highlands Falls School District.


A Methodology To Determine The Sensitivity Of Horizontal Equity Measures To Detect Changes In Distributional Equity, Sidney Castle Sep 1992

A Methodology To Determine The Sensitivity Of Horizontal Equity Measures To Detect Changes In Distributional Equity, Sidney Castle

Educational Considerations

With the courts being presented with a new round of challenges to state public educational finance systems it is important, especially in view of continued poor state fiscal conditions, that researchers are able to more accurately identify the extent to which past and contemplated new school finance reform efforts affect educational resource distributional equity.


Drug Control In Public Schools, Jerry A. Giger, Floyd Delon Sep 1992

Drug Control In Public Schools, Jerry A. Giger, Floyd Delon

Educational Considerations

It is unlikely that a completely drug-free environment can be created in schools until solutions are found for the much more serious problems of alcohol and drug abuse in American society as a whole.


The Impact Early Retirement Plans Have On University Goals And Objectives, Anne L. Jefferson Sep 1992

The Impact Early Retirement Plans Have On University Goals And Objectives, Anne L. Jefferson

Educational Considerations

Canadian university policies of mandatory retirement have undergone challenges with mixed effects.


Job Design Theory: School Structure, Teachers' Job Characteristics And Microeconomic Resource Allocation In Classrooms, Bettye Macphail-Wilcox, Julia I. Dreyden Sep 1992

Job Design Theory: School Structure, Teachers' Job Characteristics And Microeconomic Resource Allocation In Classrooms, Bettye Macphail-Wilcox, Julia I. Dreyden

Educational Considerations

The results of this exploratory study of job design in education are encouraging.


Educational Considerations, Vol.20 (1) Full Issue, Chad Litz Sep 1992

Educational Considerations, Vol.20 (1) Full Issue, Chad Litz

Educational Considerations

Educational Considerations, vol. 20 (1) Fall 1992 - Full issue


Doctoral Studies Of Students In Educational Administration Programs In Non-Member Ucea Institutions, M. Scott Norton Sep 1992

Doctoral Studies Of Students In Educational Administration Programs In Non-Member Ucea Institutions, M. Scott Norton

Educational Considerations

Doctoral studies in educational administration reflect considerable variation across the nation. Whether this is healthy or counterproductive is the subject of some debate.


Administrators' Perceptions Of School-Based Management, Stephen L. Jacobson, Beth E. Woodworth Sep 1992

Administrators' Perceptions Of School-Based Management, Stephen L. Jacobson, Beth E. Woodworth

Educational Considerations

The findings of this study suggest that the compatibility between the vision and reality of SBM in small rural districts make these sites ideal candidates for further analysis of the dynamics of increased school site autonomy.


Women And Educational Administration: Certified, But Not Employed, Marilyn L. Grady Sep 1992

Women And Educational Administration: Certified, But Not Employed, Marilyn L. Grady

Educational Considerations

Based on these results, little progress has been made in advancing the aspirations of women and removing barriers to women's advancement in administrative roles


Higher Education Of Minority Nationalities In China, Hong Xiang Wang Sep 1992

Higher Education Of Minority Nationalities In China, Hong Xiang Wang

Educational Considerations

China is a unified multinational country, with more than fifty minority nationalities.


School Law For The Principal, A Handbook For Practitioners, Joan L. Curcio, Amy C. Milford Sep 1992

School Law For The Principal, A Handbook For Practitioners, Joan L. Curcio, Amy C. Milford

Educational Considerations

A book review of School Law for the Principal, A Handbook for Practitioners, by Robert J. Shoop and Dennis R. Dunklee.


Prediction Variables For District Operating Expenditure Per Pupil In The State Of Illinois, Mary M. Polite Sep 1992

Prediction Variables For District Operating Expenditure Per Pupil In The State Of Illinois, Mary M. Polite

Educational Considerations

The influence of demographic and social variables indicate that perhaps it is time once again for Illinois to consider a cost-of-education index in the school funding formula.


Dr. Benjamin Rush (1746-1813) And The Judaeo-Christian Origins Of American Education, Donald J. D'Elia Apr 1992

Dr. Benjamin Rush (1746-1813) And The Judaeo-Christian Origins Of American Education, Donald J. D'Elia

Educational Considerations

Dr. Benjamin Rush, America's leading physician and signer of the Declaration of Independence, was probably the most articulate and comprehensive spokesman for the true meaning of the American Revolution.


On Intellect, Intelligence And Chewing Gum - A Contemporary Appraisal, Frederick C. Neff Apr 1992

On Intellect, Intelligence And Chewing Gum - A Contemporary Appraisal, Frederick C. Neff

Educational Considerations

That ours is a rapidly changing world is scarcely a matter of serious debate.