Open AccessA Comparison Of Mission Statements Of National Blue Ribbon Schools And Unacceptable Texas High Schools
Author(s) -
John Charles Perfetto,
Glenda Holland,
R. Deborah Davis,
La Vonne Fedynich
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of college teaching and learning/journal of college teaching and learning
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2157-894X
pISSN - 1544-0389
DOI - 10.19030/tlc.v10i4.8125
Subject(s) - excellence , context (archaeology) , general partnership , diversity (politics) , lifelong learning , nature versus nurture , pedagogy , psychology , sociology , political science , geography , anthropology , law , archaeology
This study was conducted to determine the themes present in the context of high schools, to determine any significant differences in themes for high and low performing high schools, and to determine if significant differences were present for the same sample of high schools based on school size. An analysis of the content of mission statements identified 31 dominant themes: Students, Providing, All, Community, Learning, Academics, Developing, Responsible, Education, Environment, Preparing, Productive, Success, Lifelong Learning, Individual, Citizen, Excellence, Skills, Society, Committed, Promotes, Achievement, Diversity, Knowledge, Nature, Challenge, Future, Partnership, Quality, Potential, and Safe. Significant differences were found between the group of high and low performing high schools for the themes of Academics, Excellence, Challenge, Learning, Nurture, and Lifelong Learning (p ? .05). Analysis of mission statements grouped by size yielded a significant difference for the theme of Knowledge for large size high schools as compared to small and medium size high schools.