The authors identified 12 hotel-management schools that maintain full-service hotels as part of their curriculum and that involve faculty in the oversight of the facility. This study investigated the perceived importance of such "captive hotels" in delivering practical hotel-management education. The authors' study measured perceptions of the importance of practical education and the importance of captive training facilities in developing ten competencies that hotel-management graduates should possess. Those perceptions were gathered from entering hotel-management students, faculty, and corporate recruiters at five schools with captive hotels and five schools without such facilities. All three groups validated the importance of practical work experiences for each of the ten competencies. They agreed that an experiential-learning program is a crucial element of hospitality-management education, but there was less agreement among the groups regarding how essential it is to use a captive training facility to teach those skills.
While most public school principals and superintendents must be awarded annual or multi-year employment contracts by their school districts, such contracts offer little protection from reassignment to a lesser position or even from dismissal. Inadequate remedies for breach of employment contracts subject school administrators to working solely at the pleasure of their school boards.
This article concerns two seemingly antagonistic Court decisions— Sante Fe Independent School District v. Jane Doe, 13 Fla. Law. W. Fed. S425; and Adler v. Duval County School Board, 13 Fla. Law. W. Fed. C460. While the Sante Fe decision struck down a school prayer school board policy, the Duval County decision allowed such policy. The authors seek to reconcile these two court decisions and offer a short history of prayer in U.S. public schools.
The practice of student retention has always been a controversial method of remediation. Consequently, with opponents of the practice arguing that retention is an ineffective alternative for at-risk youth and advocates charging that social promotion amounts to a failure to enforce meaningful academic standards, the courts have become involved in litigation concerning this issue. This article reviews several retention-related court decisions nationwide and suggests 10 best practices that school administrators can use when considering or implementing student retention policies.
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