Promising research evidence linking achievement, empowerment, and parent participation are dwarfed by troubling indications of negative, infrequent interactions between families and schools. Middle-income parents seem to participate in school-based and home-learning exercises at higher rates than lower-class parents. The study summarized in this…

This article describes a study that analyzes elementary and secondary teachers' and administrators' perceptions of the organizational climate of their school systems. (PD)

This bibliography includes entries for works published up to and including 1972. Australian education has been given a wide interpretation to encompass works published by Australians, in Australia, or about Australian education. Mimeographed as well as printed material have been included. Journals and journal articles, calendars, courses of study,…

Discusses the development of comprehensive education in Russia with the focus on the comparison of ordinary versus specializing comprehensives. (RK)

Recommends an organizational strategy for improving the effectiveness of secondary school assistant principals. Outlines skills needed by assistant principalship and provides selection and evaluation criteria. Describes an internship program to provide opportunities for individuals to pursue assistant principalships. (KH)

Teacher involvement in decision making at the secondary school level was studied to analyze when, to what extent, and in which issues teachers should be involved. Implications which may benefit school administrators are discussed. (DF)

The organizational outcomes of different types of policies that school administrators follow during times of retrenchment were studied. The effects of four retrenchment policies--in school consolidation and reduced staffs, on per-pupil costs, pupil-teacher ratios, and equity--are discussed. (PP)

Examines the functions and relationship of school principals and librarians. Discusses the changing roll of school libraries since the 1960s. Explores problems of implementing a new school library. Discusses the librarian's position in the school's organizational structure. Notes that principals must recognize and support the school library…

Uses contingency theory to examine workplace conditions making high school teaching nonroutine; investigate whether organic management forms arise when teachers' work becomes nonroutine; and investigate whether such management forms have potential for enhancing teacher effectiveness by promoting job-related learning. There is little evidence that…

This chapter discusses issues that are common across the literatures and makes connections across the different levels of inquiry to develop a conceptual model of peer influences on learning. Based on the premise that compositional effects operate through a nested series of hierarchical layers, the chapter proposes a multi-layered model with…

Background: Current federal, state, and local school accountability measures as well as policy initiatives that call for improved leadership have placed increasing demands on principals. Many districts face shortages of appropriate candidates for the job; popularly, this shortage is explained by the fact that simply too few hero-principals exist…

This paper focuses on two aspects of the Improving the Quality of Education for All (IQEA) Project, a model implemented in England and Wales since the passage of the 1988 Education Reform Act. First, it offers an overview of those management arrangements, or conditions, that the project has sought to enhance in participating schools. These…

Reports on a study which postulated that within educational organizations conflict was a function of school size, specialization of teaching, and the centralization of decision-making authority. A reciprocal relationship was also posited between intra-hierarchical and inter-hierarchical conflict. (Author/SF)