A case study of a teacher committee collaborating on development of school policy illuminates such barriers to teacher collaboration and school-based management as time constraints and lack of inservice support. A major difficulty is that the culture of teaching is based on privacy and individualism. (SK)

Examines head teachers' accounts of the extent and significance of interschool networking between primary schools, secondary schools, and across the primary/secondary divide, in five groups of schools in the United Kingdom. Analyzes the types of collaboration and the tension between conflict and collaboration for schools within the networks.…