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Download full textShober, Arnold F. – State Education Standard, 2023
In this article, Arnold Shober asserts that despite the special challenges of public governance, state boards can effectively serve as beacons of policy. An effective board is driven by effective members whatever its structure, and effective members are committed to a shared agenda and the larger project of providing direction for a state's…
Descriptors: Leadership Effectiveness, Governance, Educational Policy, State Policy
Direct linkHartong, Sigrid – Critical Studies in Education, 2021
This contribution takes a critical perspective on digital school performance platforms (SPP), which today play a key role in US state education monitoring and accountability. Using examples from two different US state education agencies, I provide an analytical disentanglement of some key dimensions of such platforms' enactment and materiality. I…
Descriptors: State Departments of Education, Technology Uses in Education, Performance, Accountability
Louis, Karen Seashore; Robinson, Viviane M. – Journal of Educational Administration, 2012
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine how US school leaders make sense of external mandates, and the way in which their understanding of state and district accountability policies affects their work. It is posited that school leaders' responses to external accountability are likely to reflect a complex interaction between their…
Descriptors: Negative Attitudes, Case Studies, Surveys, Accountability
Finkelstein, Martin; Cummings, William – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2012
This study focuses on aspects of the Changing Academic Profession survey of 2007-08 that describe the place of faculty in their institutions. The authors examine the following aspects of institutional life: (1) the faculty role in institutional governance; (2) who evaluates their teaching and research; (3) the locus of their loyalties as between…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Academic Rank (Professional), Teaching Conditions
Peterson, Robin T. – 1986
Higher education governance in Yugoslavia is described, and comparisons are made to the United States. Major differences between the countries are reflected in three areas: physical facilities, internal relations, and external relations. In the main, physical facilities at Yugoslav faculties are well-developed and maintained, despite the fact that…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Decision Making, Departments, Educational Facilities
Jacobson, Stephen L.; Johnson, Lauri; Ylimaki, Rose; Giles, Corrie – Journal of Educational Administration, 2005
Purpose: This study aims to examine seven challenging schools in the US and the practices their principals employed in leading these schools to a measure of success in terms of student performance. Design/methodology/approach: Uses a case study methodology, a two-stage framework is used to analyze the data. First, uses Leithwood and Riehl's three…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Leadership, Principals, Accountability
