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  • Middle school change : a process for restructuring in a large school district

    Creator:
    Hanneman, Kathleen D.
    Abstract:
    This qualitative study examined organizational change including the necessary steps that a large school district took in planning and implementing a reform effort. This project told a story of one school district's experience. The study covered a five year period from 1990 to 1995 in the 30,000 student Salem-Keizer School...
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    Dissertation
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    School Education, Salem-Keizer Schools, Salem, Oregon 3 3.1 Middle School Improvement Process 1990

  • Rural educator values in the implementation of drug education : a critical assessment of a crisis moral community

    Creator:
    Holmes, Donald Clifford
    Abstract:
    This study examined the values, competencies, and goals of educators related to preventing drug abuse. Its purpose was to develop a new theory to define the crisis moral community among the educators: a theory which linked the primary variables (values, competencies, and goals) in such a way as to reveal...
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    Dissertation
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    required by Oregon law, is perceived by rural Oregon middle school teachers as a risk and one they are

  • Reducing aggressive student behaviors through block scheduling

    Creator:
    Link-Jobe, Jannice
    Abstract:
    This qualitative and quantitative study examines the potential improvement in aggressive student behaviors when a block schedule is implemented in a rural, low socio-economic and multi-cultural middle school. The number of incidents of physical aggression and harassment were obtained from official school records for the years 1992-1996. Interviews were also...
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    Dissertation
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    grade program. Roosevelt Middle School in Eugene, Oregon provided the most viable template for the

  • The impact of youth gang awareness training on school personnel

    Creator:
    Novotney, Dave C.
    Abstract:
    The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of youth gang awareness training on school personnel. Middle and high school level teachers, counselors, and school administrators in a rural Oregon school district were the focus of this study. Six specially designed modules were created by the researcher and...
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    youth gang awareness training on school personnel. Middle and high school level teachers, counselors