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Welsh, Patrick – American Educator: The Professional Journal of the American Federation of Teachers, 1987
Teachers in an Alexandria, VA high school formed the School Improvement Project to have a greater voice in the running of the school. They were surprised by the work the process demanded and by faculty members and administrators wedded to the old top-down structure. (Author/LHW)
Descriptors: Decision Making, High Schools, Participative Decision Making, School Based Management
Peer reviewedKaplan, Leslie S.; Evans, Michael W., Sr. – NASSP Bulletin, 1997
High-performing schools, it is noted, share an organizational culture in which administrators, staff, and students agree on a common purpose for educational outcomes and undertake cooperative team efforts to reach these goals. A Virginia high school transformed its culture by providing comprehensive professional development and teacher-leadership…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Educational Environment, Expectation, High Schools
Download full textFord, Edmund A. – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1961
The latest available statistics for 1958-59 indicate there were 8,084 small schools and that they had enrolled in them 1,650,000 pupils. It is a matter of conjecture how much these figures will be reduced in the next 10 years, but there is considerable doubt that the reduction will be a truly significant one. In any event the current figures are…
Descriptors: Educational History, Rural Schools, High Schools, Small Schools
