After two decades of court supervision, the U.S. Supreme Court recently ruled that the DeKalb County (Georgia) Schools were largely desegregated. In this article, the district superintendent describes the debilitating effects of court-supervised desegregation on himself and the school district. True integration cannot be achieved involuntarily. A…

Draws a parallel between the post-World War II custom of using buildings in central business districts to hold community college classes while campuses were being built, and holding classes in downtown locations today in order to better meet the demands of the workforce learner. Makes suggestions for operating a successful downtown center. (CAK)

The purpose of this article was to model United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) Step 2 passing rates using the Cox Proportional Hazards Model, best known for its application in analyzing clinical trial data. The number of months it took to pass the computer-based Step 2 examination was treated as the dependent variable in the model.…

This guide aims to facilitate research and policy analysis in rural education by linking substantive issues to the data sources of the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). The guide may be used in two ways: as a handy tool for scanning NCES data that are presented with immediately applicable issues; and to stimulate, with sample…

This paper presents a classification system that assigns each of the 85,131 public elementary and secondary schools in the United States to one of seven locale settings. The seven mutually exclusive locale designations are: (1) large city; (2) mid-size city; (3) urban fringe of large city; (4) urban fringe of mid-size city; (5) large town; (6)…

The impact of factors related to professional socialization on job satisfaction and retention among faculty members in research university schools of nursing was studied. The impact of professional communication on clarity of professional role was also assessed. The study sample was drawn from nurse faculty members from schools of nursing which…

The use of a measure of geographic proximity to help explain enrollment competition among postsecondary institutions was investigated. The measure, the number of miles between institutions, was obtained by determining the longitude and latitude coordinates for about 99% of the schools in the Higher Education General Information System universe.…

Designed to be of help to individuals and groups seeking to establish a day care center in the metropolitan St. Louis area, this manual calls attention to important and basic information which must be taken into account if planning is to produce tangible results. Following a brief section defining commonly used terms referring to organized…

THIS REPORT TREATS THE PROBLEMS INVOLVED IN MOVING FROM AN OLD CAMPUS AND CREATING A NEW CAMPUS. IT IS BASED ON THE EXPERIENCES OF FOUR COLLEGES WITH PARTICULAR EMPHASIS ON SKIDMORE COLLEGE IN SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. WHICH HAS DECIDED TO MOVE. THE QUESTIONS DISCUSSED CENTER AROUND SUCH TOPICS AS THE REASON FOR MOVING, THE KIND OF NEW SITE, THE KIND…

THE CHANGING ROLE OF THE SCHOOLHOUSE REFLECTS THE CHANGING NATURE OF SOCIETY. NEW SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND PLANNING CONCEPTS, SHIFTING POPULATION COMPOSITION, AND NEW EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS DEFINE PROBLEMS TO BE RESOLVED BY THE URBAN SCHOOLHOUSE. THE ANSWERS LIE IN ITS TRANSFORMATION TO A COMMUNITY-ORIENTED CENTER THROUGH PRACTICAL MEANS. JOINT…

BASED ON THE POSITION THAT RACIAL INTEGRATION IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS IS ESSENTIAL FOR GOOD EDUCATION, THIS PAMPHLET PRESENTS THE POSITION OF THE NATIONAL COMMUNITY RELATIONS ADVISORY COUNCIL ON THE FOLLOWING ISSUES RELEVANT TO SCHOOL DESEGREGATION--(1) SEGREGATION IN THE NORTH, (2) FEASIBLE MEANS OF DESEGREGATION, (3) EDUCATIONAL ENRICHMENT AND SPECIAL…

This report treats the problems involved in moving from an old campus and creating a new campus. It is based on the experiences of four colleges with particular emphasis on Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., which has decided to move. The questions discussed center around such topics as the reason for moving, the kind of new site, the…

Desegregation in education is now a matter of national policy initiated by the Federal courts and spurred on by Congress in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Emergency School Aid Act of 1972. No one, however, has attempted to delineate a comprehensive set of guiding rules, or a reasonable modus operandi in resolving disputes. Within a single…

Over the last decade, policymakers, educators, and researchers have increasingly sought to understand community college policies and practices that promote students' success. This effort has been partly driven by an increased emphasis on outcome accountability, but it has also promoted a productive discussion about improving institutional…