What are the Characteristics of a Good School? A Research Proposal

Examples are: (i) Baker J. F. , and Others. Elementary Evaluative Criteria. Boston: School of Education, Boston University, 1953. (ii) California Association of Secondary School Administrators. Procedures for Appraising California Secondary Schools. Berkeley, California, 1955. (iii) “Cooperative Study of Secondary School Standards”. Evaluative Criteria. Washington 6, D.C.: Banta Publishing Co., Wisconsin, 1950. (iv) “Texas Junior High School Criteria Study”. Criteria for Evaluating Junior High Schools. University of Texas, Austin, 1956. (v) Franzen, G. F. Jung, C. Hughes, O. Use of Evaluative Criteria in the Indiana Secondary Schools. Bloomington: Division of Research and Field Services, Indiana University Bulletin, 1954.

Mort P. R. Principles of School Administration. New York: McGraw Hill, 1946.

Recently revised as Mort P. R. Ross D. H. Principles of School Administration. New York: McGraw Hill, 1957.

Mort P. R. Cornell F. G. A Guide for Self-Appraisal of School Systems. New York: Bureau of Publications, Teachers' College, Columbia University, 1937.

Mort P. R. Cornell F. G. Adaptability of Public Service Systems. New York: Bureau of Publications, Teachers' College, Columbia University, 1938.

Mort P. R. Cornell F. G. American Schools in Transition. New York: Bureau of Publications, Teachers' College, Columbia University, 1941.

Mort P. R. Vincent W. S. Newell C. A. The Growing Edge—an Instrument for Measuring the Adaptability of School Systems. New York: Metropolitan School Study Council, Teachers' College, Columbia University, 1946.

Ross D. H. and Others. Guide for Self Analysis of Personnel Relationships of School Systems. New York: Metropolitan School Study Council, 1953.

The Central School Study, Institute of Administrative Research, Columbia University; The Citizenship Education Project, Columbia University; and the University of the State of New York, State Education Department. Knowledge and Action in Citizenship Education. New York, 1951.

Cornell F. G. Lindvall C. M. Saupe J. L. An Exploratory Measurement of Individualities of Schools and Classrooms. Urbana: Bulletin, Bureau of Educational Research, College of Education, University of Illinois, 1952, p. 11.

Acknowledgement is made for some ideas adapted from Metropolitan Schools Study Council, Committee on Lay Understanding. What Schools Can Do—One Hundred and One Patterns of Educational Practice. New York: The Council, 1947.

Mort P. R. “School and Community Relationships to School Quality”. Teachers' College Record, 55, 4, 1954.