Rationality and Retrenchment: The Use of Computer Simulation to Aid Decision Making in School Closings.

Yeager, Robert F.

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Publication Date: 1979-May

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Rationality and Retrenchment: The Use of Computer Simulation to Aid Decision Making in School Closings.

Yeager, Robert F.

Education and Urban Society, v11 n3 p296-312 May 1979

This paper describes how one school district grappled with the problem of deciding which of its schools should be closed. Also discussed is how predictive data from a computer simulation of school closings were used in making the decision. (Author/EB)

Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Computers, Declining Enrollment, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, School Closing, School Planning, Simulation

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Illinois (Champaign)

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