Over the past few years, as part of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) reform on the one hand, and the increased demands for school accountability on the other, more and more schools have launched a school website aimed at enhancing educational activities, supporting student-teacher communication, contributing to school marketing…

School district size is important to policymakers and educators who need to determine the most effective way to structure school organization. For more than 40 years, a growing body of research has focused on the relationship between school size and school effectiveness (Monk & Plecki, 1999). Early studies did not address the effect of school…

This study identified the enabling conditions related to building instructional capacity created by the councils in three high-performance schools in an urban district. The authors collected the data through observation, interview, and document mining. School-level data were sorted inductively into themes through constant comparative analysis.…

This report reveals that about 100 Chicago schools suffer from chronically high rates of teacher turnover, losing a quarter or more of their teaching staff every year, and many of these schools serve predominantly low-income African American children. In the typical Chicago elementary school, 51 percent of the teachers working in 2002 had left…

Teachers are facing an increasing number of changes in their job context, many of which significantly affect their work lives. This study offers a theoretical understanding of the changes in teachers' working conditions, starting from the intensification thesis. The case study of a Flemish (Belgian) elementary school shows the existence of various…

The changes taking place in education require of teachers an unprecedented professional re-orientation and growth. Much of this can be done effectively only by a collective effort within the school. Staff development, including the induction of probationary teachers, is the organizing of a systematic response to these many changes. (Author/IRT)

Author discussed the efforts to redesign Boys High School, an all-male, academic school located in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, N. Y. (Author/RK)

In a study of the mainstreaming practices of a large urban school district, schedules of 844 mildly handicapped elementary students were examined. Schedule appropriateness was defined by three factors: assignments of handicapped students to a fixed group of regular students, to a grade-appropriate group, and for the full sequence of scheduled…

This paper examines a project involving teams of teachers, school administrators, and district-level people from Coalition of Essential Schools (CES) member schools. The CES is a high school reform movement devoted to strengthening the learning of students by reforming each school's priorities and simplifying its structure. The common principles…

Using an analysis of data collected by the National Survey of Health and Development, this research report studies the relative importance of ability, social class, sex, and type of school on the performance of children in the educational system of England and Wales. Conclusions suggest that reorganization of educational institutions can have…

A systems approach to school organization should define the role and function of the elementary school principal as a middle manager. (Author/DN)

SCHOOL ORGANIZATION FOR PRIMARY SCHOOL CHILDREN HAS BEEN STUDIED IN TERMS OF A CONTINUOUS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM BY A CITY-WIDE EDUCATOR'S COMMITTEE FORMED WITHIN THE CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM AND THE RESULTS ARE PRESENTED. PARTICIPANTS HAVE RECEIVED THE OPERATION OF THIS PROGRAM WITHIN THEIR OWN SPHERE OF RESPONSIBILITY. THE PHILOSOPHY,…

This paper is intended to assist school administrators in improving existing school organizations. It discusses the nature of organizations, provides indicators of reorganization timing, and discusses the task of reorganization. A matrix chart, used to analyze and compare different organizational structures, is provided with explanations.…

This paper discusses research findings applicable to the nongraded plan of school organization (also referred to as ungraded, continuous progress, multigraded, multiaged, and ungraded primary unit). The introduction notes a rapidly increasing movement toward nongrading and defines the concept. Part 1, presents the case for and against nongrading…

This manual provides specific and practical suggestions for the development of heterogeneous classes and individualized instruction in the More Effective Schools Program. The following major topics are covered in a number of short sections: 1) school organization, from prekindergarten through grade six; 2) the roles of the principal, assistant…