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Imants, Jeroen; Sleegers, Peter; Witziers, Bob – School Leadership & Management, 2001
Explores how Dutch secondary schools can provide supportive working contexts that promote teacher learning, focusing on integration of two substructures (subject departments and student guidance units). Analyzes tensions between the substructures, summarizes insights into teacher learning communities, and discusses integrated teacher teams'…
Descriptors: Decentralization, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Professional Development
Patrinos, Harry Anthony; Fasih, Tazeen; Barrera, Felipe; Garcia-Moreno, Vicente A.; Bentaouet-Kattan, Raja; Baksh, Shaista; Wickramasekera, Inosha – World Bank Publications, 2007
School-based management (SBM) has become a very popular movement over the past decade. The World Bank Education Team's SBM work program emerged out of a need to define the concept more clearly, review the evidence, support impact assessments in various countries, and provide some initial feedback to teams preparing education projects. During the…
Descriptors: School Based Management, Program Effectiveness, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
Coleman, Laurence – Gifted Child Today, 2006
The purpose of this article is to summarize what is generally known about talent development and schooling by stating some propositions about the way such programs are structured. This article sets the stage for a series of stories of programs that attempt to address the challenge of talent development in diverse low-income populations. The…
Descriptors: Talent Development, Economically Disadvantaged, Low Income Groups, School Organization
Piwowarski, Rafal – 1996
This publication contains a brief description of secondary education in Poland. The first section provides an overview of the societal and political context in which the educational system exists. The second section discusses current educational issues, including policy formation, finance, the school role in the community, administration and…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Enrollment Trends, Foreign Countries, Governance
Bean, Linwood H., Jr. – 1983
Three administrative approaches to organize the secondary school to provide services for learning disabled students are considered. In the first, a staff member assumes the role of case manager, coordinating communication and records from staffings, placement team meetings, conferences with parents, and individualized education program…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Committees, Delivery Systems, Learning Disabilities
Seckington, Roger – Forum for the Discussion of New Trends in Education, 1975
Author considered the question of school size and its effect upon the individual learner or teacher. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Educational Development, Educational Planning, Educational Trends, Enrollment
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Smart, John C.; McLaughlin, Gerald W. – Research in Higher Education, 1974
Findings suggest that Holland's theory of vocational choice can assist in the interpretation of goal priorities within the academic community. Suggestions indicate how this theory might be employed by university administrators and in subsequent research on the administration of academic departments and the roles of their chairmen. (Editor/PG)
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Career Choice, Departments, Educational Administration
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
English, Fenwick W. – The Practitioner, 1989
School-site management embodies the concept that decisions should be made at the lowest possible level in organizations and intends that no decision be made without the input of those affected by them. The concept also suggests the empowerment of individual units of the system, particularly, the teachers. Centralization versus decentralization is…
Descriptors: Centralization, Decentralization, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education
Texas Education Agency, Austin. – 1986
This publication introduces and presents an Effective Schools Checklist that can serve as a broad guide for administrators comparing their schools to the profile of an effective school. The categories assessed are school climate, institutional organization, the curriculum, instruction, training and development, and evaluation and assessment. (PGD)
Descriptors: Check Lists, Elementary Secondary Education, Institutional Characteristics, Institutional Environment
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Cook, Ann; Mack, Herb – National Elementary Principal, 1974
Education should be made the prime function of schools and the enormous task of establishing new directions and new traditions that will make this possible should be started. Suggested are master teachers, clustering of grade levels, and changing the role of the principal from administrator to coordinator. (Author/DN)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Comparative Education, Elementary Schools, Master Teachers
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Woodall, James H. – National Elementary Principal, 1974
Examines the status of the elementary school principal and his relation to the central office. Considers the effects of administrative decentralization. (Author/DN)
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Role, Central Office Administrators, Decentralization
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Purrington, Gordon S.; Padro, Susan – Planning and Changing, 1974
New organizational arrangements are required to solve the problems confronting a rapidly changing society. A dynamic, ongoing organization responsive to the requirements of this new era can be designed from a systems approach in terms of inputs, conversion process, and outputs. (Author/DN)
Descriptors: Educational Change, Models, Organizational Change, Organizational Development
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Eckstein, William – Clearing House, 1974
Are ninth graders too young for high school or too old for middle or junior high school? Author examines the problem and does not feel it is that severe. (Editor/RK)
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Educational Planning, Educational Practices, Problem Solving
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Eddy, Elizabeth M. – Human Organization, 1975
This paper presents a case study of a major educational innovation introduced into a school at the time of pupil desegregation. It was found that the innovation was essentially a rite of intensification whereby Whites and Blacks established new interaction patterns within a unitary school system by reinforcing the customary relationships between…
Descriptors: Blacks, Educational Innovation, Interaction Process Analysis, Racial Integration
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