Maintaining Comprehensive High School Programs in a Time of Declining Enrollment [microform] / James P. Karon
- Bib ID:
- 5455413
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Karon, James P
- Description:
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1985
- 25 p.
- Summary:
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Using information from relevant literature and recent surveys and interviews with administrators of many of Rhode Island's smaller school districts, the report identifies options/strategies which may be useful in counteracting the potential adverse effects that low, or significantly declining, enrollments may have on the comprehensiveness of a district's high school program. The options are grouped into four tables which include the perceived advantages/disadvantages of each approach and comments relevant to Rhode Island schools. Table 1 outlines nine "in-house" options for maintaining a broad curriculum: expanded grade range, combined related courses, alternate-year offerings, multiple certification of teachers, interdisciplinary courses, increased student course load, innovative instructional delivery, independent study, and flexible minimum enrollment policies. Table 2 presents five options for using business, cultural, and postsecondary education resources to maintain a broad curriculum: use of community resources, correspondence courses, expanded school mission, concurrent high school and postsecondary enrollment, and early college enrollment. Table 3 describes seven inter-district cooperative strategies and regionalization as curriculum maintaining methods: cross-registration, joint program offerings, specialized regional schools/agencies, itinerant teachers, tuition/voucher arrangements, support function cooperation, and consolidation/regionalization. Table 4 covers application of three new technologies to maintain a broad curriculum: taped or"over-air" instructional television, computer-assisted instruction, and interactive telecommunications. (NEC)
- Notes:
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- ERIC Note: Paper presented at the "Small Schools Conference" (Bristol, RI, May 23, 1985).
- Teachers.
- Administrators.
- Policymakers.
- Practitioners.
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- Microfiche. [Washington D.C.]: ERIC Clearinghouse microfiches : positive.
- Subject:
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- Articulation (Education)
- Curriculum Development
- Declining Enrollment
- Delivery Systems
- Educational Cooperation
- Educational Strategies
- Educational Technology
- High Schools
- Interdisciplinary Approach
- Program Content
- Rural Education
- Secondary Education
- Secondary School Curriculum
- Small Schools
- Teaching Methods
- Rhode Island
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- ERIC
- Copyright:
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- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1985
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