Discusses the advantages of centralized services (including materials selection, acquisitions, cataloguing, processing, loan of expensive and unique materials, and production of local materials) as practiced by the Calgary Board of Education. Notes how costs savings should be measured. Stresses the essential cooperation between school-based…

Briefly describes the educational systems of Western Europe as essentially similar despite a few variations. Comments on the economic support provided for education, the structures and clienteles of the various systems from elementary school through higher education, and the range and content of the curricula offered. (PGD)

Analyzes two private, secondary school rituals to determine why private schools are more effective than state schools in socializing students into acceptance of and support for the culture of the school. (Author/MW)

This article discusses general aims of the UNESCO Associated Schools Project and offers a case study of a primary school in Mexico City. (Author/DB)

Explores how metaphors are used to identify and store some expectations that structure schools' interactions and communications. Outlines a systems-theoretical view of schools derived from Niklas Luhmann's social theories. Illustrates how the metaphors identified in an earlier study provide material contexts for identifying and storing structures…

Explores the concept of decentralization within South Africa. Examines the policy impact of participation and democratization in relation to the powers and functions of school governing bodies. Concludes by considering the gap between rhetoric and practice in relation to attempts to entrench democracy and participation at the school level. (CAJ)

Examines the concept of school culture to understand individual schools. Analyzes the terms culture and school culture and compares the concept of school culture to the concept of organizational culture. Argues that organizational culture is a key concept in school development. Assesses the methodology of the organizational culture approach. (CAJ)

The financing of education in Canada involves a trilevel structure: federal, provincial, and local. The extent of governmental involvement at the federal and provincial levels is constitutionally determined, but there is no one accepted input scale between these levels. Particular funding formulae are provided for each province. Includes 11 notes.…

This examination of higher education in Yugoslavia describes the current structure of higher education, the relationship among various branches of higher education, organizational challenges such as responding to the needs of the economy and democratization, quantitative trends, and general problems such as declining enrollments. (DB)

Reports that the cooperative program planning and teaching (CPPT) role of teacher-librarians is for the most part not taking place to any degree in the majority of primary schools in Australia. Reasons for the failure of CPPT to gain wide acceptance in Australian primary schools are analyzed and the benefits of CPPT are discussed. (six references)…

Discusses France's 1989 New Policy for Education (NPE), which identifies three ways of preventing academic failure: school policies stressing family involvement and instructional continuity; reorganization of primary education into three training cycles; and assessment of student competencies. Considers NPE's position on knowledge development.…

Questions whether and how instruction and schooling play a role in the problematization of the sciences and in the limitation and assessment of the implications of a universalized scientific rationality. Sketches the contours of an organization of schooling not characterized by a technical pattern. (CMK)

A study used survey data from an achieved sample of 1,818 elementary teachers and 6,490 students in a large Canadian school district to explore teacher and principal leadership influences on student engagement with school. Principal-leadership effects were weak but significant; teacher-leadership effects proved insignificant. (Contains 59…

The article discusses selected findings of a narrative review, funded by the Institute of Physics, in response to the continuing decline in the number of girls studying physics post-16 in England; 177 selected sources, of national and international research literature about girls' participation in physics, were reviewed. In the article, we argue…

Cultural and national history have profoundly modeled Greek society and continue to play a vital role in Greek policy and in cultural and social life. This handbook provides a brief overview of secondary education in Greece. The first part describes the country's societal, historical, and political background; educational history and current…