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Download full textHerlihy, Lester B.; Deffenbaugh, Walter S.; Covert, Timon – US Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1941
This bulletin presents the statistics of city school systems in 1937-38. The four population groups in this report are as follows: Group I contains 90 cities each having a population of at least 100,000 and each of which constitutes a school administrative unit. Group II contains 212 cities having a population of not less than 30,000 or more than…
Descriptors: Educational History, School Statistics, Statistical Surveys, National Surveys
Price, Elaine J. – 1982
Formerly published in "Statistics of Public Elementary and Secondary School Systems," the information presented here on the 20 largest cities (by population size) comes from the 27th annual survey of public schools, conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics. Data are presented in eight tables and three graphs, covering number of…
Descriptors: Administrators, Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education, Enrollment
Goldstein, Marc B.; Baranowskyj, Arita – 1983
Based on Barker's Manning Theory, the behavioral and attitudinal consequences of participation in undermanned settings were examined among university faculty. Faculty from the four smallest (undermanned) and four largest liberal arts departments at Central Connecticut State College were surveyed regarding their academic activities and their…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Departments, Faculty Workload, Higher Education
Bell, Patricia Ann – 1976
Reported in this document are observations of early childhood education in England, Israel, Seychelles, and China. Specifically, observations focus on (1) teacher behavior, including behavior toward individuals, small groups, and large groups or whole classes; (2) teacher demonstration behaviors; (3) teacher verbal and nonverbal behaviors, such as…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Cross Cultural Studies, Early Childhood Education, Financial Support
Channon, Geraldine L.; Brown, Wilfred J. – 1978
The results of a conference of Canadian teacher associations are presented and interpreted. The principal themes of the conference were teacher unemployment and the financing of education. A review of developments in education and teaching in Canada over the past few years and implications for the future comprise the body of this report.…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Educational Finance, Equal Education, Foreign Countries
Stones, E. – Educ Rev, 1969
Descriptors: Class Size, College Faculty, College Students, Educational Research
Verabioff, Lorne J. – 1979
The traditional model for student teaching is based on a one-to-one relationship between the student teacher and the supervising teacher. However, by providing interaction with only one individual, the possibility for varied practice and feedback is limited. A model is proposed in which five student teachers work with one supervising teacher. The…
Descriptors: Cooperating Teachers, Feedback, Higher Education, Master Teachers
Inkeles, Alex; Sirowy, Larry – 1979
Convergence theory, which explains changes in social systems, predicts that student-teacher ratios will become more similar worldwide under the impact of economic accumulation, technological utilization, industrialization, location and growth of the student-age population, enrollment expansion, and changes in each society's relationship to the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, Developed Nations, Developing Nations
Yap, Kim Onn – 1981
Data obtained for 89 Title I reading projects were analyzed by multiple regression and discriminant function techniques to assess the relationships between project students' achievement and project characteristics. The results suggested that project characteristics specified in the Title I Evaluation and Reporting System (TIERS) data forms are…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, Elementary Secondary Education, Enrollment
Woods, Nancy A. – 1979
A system to determine cost effectiveness of class size should be based on both budgeted and actual expenditures and credit hours at the individual course section level. These two factors, in combination, are often expressed as cost per credit hour, and this statistic forms the primary means of evaluating planned "inputs" against actual "outputs."…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Class Size, College Credits, Community Colleges
Bredeweg, Frank H. – 1979
This 1979 report presents updated cost and enrollment statistics for Catholic elementary schools, along with brief explanations of the data. Twelve tables give figures on the following: (1) enrollment (Catholic and public schools), (2) school size, (3) projections of school age populations through 1986, (4) operating costs, (5) per pupil costs…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Elementary Education, Enrollment, Enrollment Projections
Morgan, John A., Jr. – 1978
Funding constraints had resulted in the need to increase the size of classes conducted by the Business and Technical Division of Piedmont Technical College. In the absence of budget limitations classes were split when enrollments exceeded 30 students. This study was initiated to examine the relationship of class size to course grade point average…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrative Policy, Business Education, Class Size
BLANKE, VIRGIL E. – 1960
AN ARTICLE ON SCHOOL DISTRICT REORGANIZATION IS PRESENTED TO PROVIDE HELP TO THOSE CONSIDERING THIS STEP AND TO SERVE AS A BASIS FOR RESEARCH. CHARACTERISTICS OF INADEQUATE DISTRICTS ARE LISTED, AND REASONS FOR CONTINUED EXISTENCE OF SUCH DISTRICTS ARE DISCUSSED. FIVE CRITERIA FOR MEASURING SCHOOL DISTRICT ADEQUACY ARE PRESENTED--SCOPE OF THE…
Descriptors: Administration, Board of Education Role, Enrollment, Financial Support
Bredeweg, Frank H. – 1980
Until recently there had been no systematic effort to gather comparable data from public and private schools. However, for the years 1976-77 through 1978-79, with the cooperation of the National Catholic Education Association and the Council for American Private Education, the National Center for Education Statistics surveyed all known private…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Costs, Elementary Education, Enrollment Trends
Smith, Mary Lee; Glass, Gene V. – 1979
Using data from previously completed research, the authors of this report attempted to examine the relationship between class size and measures of outcomes such as student attitudes and behavior, classroom processes and learning environment, and teacher satisfaction. The authors report that statistical integration of the existing research…
Descriptors: Class Size, Classroom Environment, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
