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Donaldson, Morgaen L. – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2011
This article provides key findings from a study of 30 principals working in charter and conventional schools in two northeastern states. It aims to inform policy makers regarding how principals could more positively influence teacher quality. It focuses on the following questions: (1) What influenced how principals hired, assigned, evaluated, and…
Descriptors: Principals, Charter Schools, Traditional Schools, Context Effect
MacIsaac, Teresa – Education Canada, 1984
While fiscal restraint has some negative impact, it provides an opportunity to bring greater order to schooling. The intellectual function of the school is "the perpetuation, transformation, and generation of knowledge grounded in the disciplines." Implicit in this vision of school is rejection of the function of school as socialization. (BRR)
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Conventional Instruction, Educational Change, Educational Philosophy
Gregory, Thomas B.; Smith, Gerald R. – 1987
Urging new directions for American high school education, this book outlines problems with contemporary high schools and describes the experience of small high schools (those having approximately 200 students), designed in the past 15 years, that have developed excellent and diverse alternative programs within the constraints of existing district…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Demonstration Programs, Differences, Educational Change