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Hamilton, David – 1989
This book examines long-term changes in the form and function of schooling. The work falls into three sections: an introductory chapter; five historical essays; and a concluding chapter. Chapter 1 unfolds the theoretical and practical considerations that governed the selection and organization of the historical essays. The historical essays in…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational History, Educational Philosophy, Educational Theories
Murphy, Joseph; Beck, Lynn G.; Crawford, Marilyn; Hodges, Amy; McGaughy, Charis L. – 2001
This book is designed to inform the educational community about the empirical foundations of productive high schools. Part 1 focuses on the core technology (learning and teaching), the organizational systems in which the core function are nested (the ecology of the institution), and the institutional linkages between the school and its…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Educational Environment, Educational Technology, Effective Schools Research
Wiles, Jon; Bondi, Joseph – 1993
This book takes readers through the steps that school personnel encounter in planning and developing a middle school. Chapter 1 outlines the rationale, origin, advantages, functions, and tasks of a middle school, along with setting parameters for its unique identity. Chapter 2 identifies the target population, emerging adolescents, and their…
Descriptors: Educational Planning, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools, Middle Schools
Burris, Carol Corbett; Garrity, Delia T. – Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 2008
While almost any educator would agree that students deserve access to equal educational opportunities, many schools still sort students based on test scores or other criteria. There's a better way: one built on offering all students access to the best curriculum. In this first-ever practical book that shows how educators can make detracking work,…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Equal Education, High Achievement, Heterogeneous Grouping
Brown, Daniel J. – 1990
The general aim of this book is to provide a focussed discussion on decentralization and school-based management. In part 1, chapter 1, some problems, anticipations, and a recommendation concerning decentralization are presented. In part 2, chapters 2 through 6 review literature about the structural view of organizations, rationality and…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Decentralization, Elementary Secondary Education, Institutional Autonomy
Deal, Terrence E.; Baldridge, J. Victor – 1974
Since educational organizations must constantly change to meet the demands of a changing society, educational administrators might look to the social sciences for help in managing change and innovation. This paper argues that an organizational approach to educational innovation is likely to be more successful than an individualistic approach.…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Educational Change, Educational Development, Educational Innovation
Hawley, Willis D., Ed. – Corwin Press, 2006
Working in tandem with the powerful National Education Association's KEYS initiative (Keys to Excellence in Your Schools), this second edition focuses on how to change a school's organizational structure and culture to improve the quality of teaching and learning. Each chapter, revised and updated to address continuous improvement and narrowing…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Improvement, School Culture, School Organization
Parker, John L. – 1973
This booklet describes how a group of doctoral condidates at Harvard established the Clinical School Collaborative and how they tried to shape their ideal into a reality. The group wanted to form an organization which did a better job in teaching students, training adults, and pursuing research than existing institutions. They held discussions in…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Educational Innovation, Educational Planning, Educational Research
Oakes, Jeannie, Ed.; Saunders, Marisa, Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2008
"Beyond Tracking" responds to the a sobering assessment of American high schools by delineating and promoting an innovative and well-defined notion of multiple pathways. The book's authors clearly distinguish their use of the term "multiple pathways" from any updated version of the tracking system that marked so many American high schools during…
Descriptors: Evidence, High Schools, Democracy, Second Language Learning
Astuto, Terry A.; And Others – 1994
The education reform movement that began in the 1980s has produced disappointing and unsatisfactory results. This book asserts that the reform movement must be reformulated, and that this information is possible and even likely for a new and vigorous effort to save the children and the schools. It argues that the reform movement is rooted in a…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Philosophy, Educational Policy, Educational Principles
McMullen, Tim – 1978
Today's adolescent is isolated from the adult world and deprived of the secure framework of beliefs, morals, and conventions needed to guide socialization. In order to achieve the modern educational goal of preparing students for coping with the real world, the peculiar and particular nature of the earlier stages of adolescence must inform all…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Curriculum, Educational Change, Educational Objectives
Brubaker, Dale L.; Nelson, Roland H., Jr. – 1974
In order to survive creativity in and change educational organizations, the decision-maker needs to understand how these organizations presently function. Educational organizations are discussed as sociopolitical systems and a conceptual framework is proposed for analysis, planning, implementation, and evaluation. The five functions that…
Descriptors: Bureaucracy, Change Strategies, Educational Administration, Elementary Secondary Education
Bauersfeld, H., Ed.; And Others – 1974
This document contains papers prepared for two meetings involving the French educational research in mathematics institute (IREM) and the German institute (IDM) at the University of Bielefeld. The 14 papers concern: (1) the organization of the school systems in the Federal Republic of Germany and in France; (2) mathematics curricula in German…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary Secondary Education, Instruction
Bailey, William J. – 1997
The American public schools need a total revamping of structure, philosophy, pedagogy, and professionalism. This book is part of a series that explains why significant changes are needed and how changes can be made given the present constitutional authority. Part 1 introduces the causes and effects of the malfunctioning of the typical school…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Decentralization, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
Berends, Mark; Bodilly, Susan J.; Kirby, Sheila Nataraj – 2002
New American Schools (NAS) was formed in 1991 to create and develop whole-school designs that would be adopted by schools throughout the country in order to improve student performance. This book is a retrospective on NAS and draws together the finding from RAND research. Chapter 1, the introduction, gives an overview of NAS, RAND's purpose and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Secondary Education, Program Design, Program Development