Unless the United States moves with urgency, today's young people will be the first generation in American history to be less educated than their predecessors. Consider this a sobering wake-up call--and an urgent appeal for action now. In this report, one will get an unprecedented look behind the ivy-covered walls of America's public colleges and…

Where have all the soils students gone? Several articles have been published recently discussing the decline in undergraduate student enrollment in soil science. Those who work directly with these students have known that this trend has existed for many years. At first we thought this trend was temporary. Now we realize that this declining trend…

Adopting a seven-period school day can help ease problems caused by declining enrollment in the following areas: teaching load, retention of electives, reduction of pupil-teacher ratio, utilization of facilities, graduation requirements and student interest, length of periods, and availability of time for noninstructional uses. (PGD)

Outlines how the district consolidated the city's seven high schools into three complexes. Includes discussion of the assignment of students, staffing changes, and the public relations program that accompanied the change. (IRT)

Since the passage of The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, a superintendent's role has been redefined and more focus has been placed on student achievement. Research demonstrates that rural public schools are faced with an educational crisis. Rural districts are faced with an epidemic of declining enrollments/budgets, increased drop-out rates, low…

In this paper, the author has attempted to provide an overview of some of the issues and challenges confronting rural educators and parents in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. He has chosen to focus on three of the most pressing at this point in time: (1) declining enrollment and its consequences; (2) the continuing pressure on…

This chapter of "The Best of the Best of ERIC" contains 16 annotations of documents and journal articles on declining enrollment, all of which are indexed in the ERIC system. Materials on reduction in force, school closing, enrollment forecasting, planning for enrollment decline, and other topics are annotated. (DS)

Three fundamental skills seem essential for board members in times of declining enrollments--decision-making, long-range planning, and marshalling support for the implementation of the long-range plan. (Author/IRT)

Fourteen school districts in Arizona responded to questionnaires concerning the problem of surplus school space. (MLF)

A study of enrollment forecasting procedures in Los Angeles County has yielded data that provide guidelines for making accurate enrollment projections. (WD)

Reports on a model that develops estimates of institutional enrollments for each market segment in a particular geographic area (three counties in Pennsylvania in this case). The data suggest that it is the self-contained local markets that will be most subject to demographic pressures. (Author/IRT)

Since the late 1990s, enrollments in Information Technology and Information Systems-related academic programs have declined sharply. This paper addresses possible causes of the enrollment decline, and some of the "myths" regarding careers in IT/IS are dispelled. A number of efforts underway at various universities and professional organizations in…

The U.S. Department of Education's "back to the basics" thrust of the 1980s took a terrible toll on enrollments for those teaching in the "practical arts." So, in the face of declining enrollments, angry employers wanting more program graduates, and a concerned advisory council, technology teachers must go on television and express their…

Using enrollment decline cases for data, the case survey method analyzes the content of case studies, thus allowing data from various cases to be aggregated and researchers to overcome constraints on data collection. The analyst uses six steps in this method in reviewing the case literature: (1) definition of the unit of analysis, (2)…