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Lee, Valerie E.; Smith, Julia B. – Sociology of Education, 1993
Reports on a study of the impact of attending restructured schools on the achievement and engagement of 8,845 eighth graders from public, Catholic, and independent schools. Finds modest, but consistently positive, effects on both achievement and engagement. Also finds that students attending smaller schools demonstrated more academic achievement.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Control, Educational Change, Grade 8
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Troman, Geoff – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 1996
Explores teachers' reactions to changing management cultures and argues for a complex reading of their responses. Utilizes data from several ethnographic studies that examined primary school teachers' reactions to the fact that the strictures and obligations of their vocation have become more professional. Many older teachers left whereas younger…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers, Foreign Countries
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Bidwell, Charles E.; Frank, Kenneth A.; Quiroz, Pamela A. – Sociology of Education, 1997
Presents a theory of workplace control in American high schools based on the assumption that school workplaces contain potent systems that control the everyday work attitudes and conduct of teachers. Posits the formation of teacher types, each comprising distinctive attitudes toward work, as the link between control systems and behavior. (MJP)
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Educational Environment, Educational Sociology, High Schools
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Sinden, James; Hoy, Wayne K.; Sweetland, Scott R. – Journal of School Leadership, 2004
School structures need not be rigid, controlling, and coercive; in fact, they can be just the opposite. Enabling school structures are centralized and formalized in ways that promote problem solving, collaboration, flexibility, change, and professional judgment. The current research demonstrates the importance of "both" collegial…
Descriptors: Leadership, Administrative Principles, Principals, Teacher Attitudes
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Pritchard, Rosalind – Tertiary Education and Management, 2005
Financial stringency and neo-liberal influences in higher education are impacting upon relationships and academic values in higher education. The aim of the present paper was to analyse how these forces operate differentially in the UK and Germany. The British students were significantly more satisfied than were their German counterparts with the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, German, Political Attitudes
Harrison, Linda – 1996
This booklet, revised from the March 1990 version, provides suggestions for reassessing, modifying, and arranging child care center environments to best serve the needs of children and staff. The booklet notes that a well-planned environment can provide young children with appropriate and challenging learning experiences within a consistent and…
Descriptors: Classroom Design, Classroom Environment, Day Care Centers, Developmentally Appropriate Practices
Maine State Planning Council on Developmental Disabilities, Augusta. – 1996
This handbook is the result of more than 2 years' deliberations by The Commission on the Restructuring of the American High School. The Commission emerged from a partnership of the National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP) and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The report focuses on revitalizing education…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Curriculum Design, Diversity (Institutional), Educational Assessment
Wirt, William; Glines, Don – 1995
Early in the 20th century, education reformers were calling for new approaches to meet the demands of that era. "The Great Lockout" was written by William Wirt in 1937 to describe the radical Platoon Work-Study-Play Schools that flourished in Gary, Indiana from 1907-37. This book contains Wirt's original document, which provides a…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Schools, Cooperative Learning, Educational History
Kershaw, C. A.; Blank, M. A. – 1993
Recent research suggests that special programs designed to "fix" low-achieving students are based on a deficiency model that does not serve their clients' needs. Alternative schools are providing conditions necessary to address disenfranchised students' problems. The descriptive case study summarized here was conducted to determine the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Dropout Programs, Educational Environment, High Risk Students
Swedish Inst., Stockholm. – 1992
This paper describes Swedish higher education, its place in the overall education system, enrollments, standards, graduate education, teachers, and organization. A brief history of the system focuses on reforms since the 1950s that have dramatically changed all of education in Sweden. Data on enrollment show that 35 percent of young people attend…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, College Faculty, College Programs, Enrollment
Mason, Peter – 1994
The tradition of academic excellence in the arts, culture, mathematics, and science in Bulgaria that was set aside under communism remains the goal of the Bulgarian government with legislation designed to replace the ideological doctrine subordinating education under a totalitarian regime and to restore Bulgaria's historical tradition. The new law…
Descriptors: Educational Attitudes, Educational Change, Educational Development, Educational Environment
Theobald, Neil D. – 1990
The purpose of this paper is to: (1) discuss the requisite financial and organizational components of partner schools or professional development schools; and (2) identify structures and processes which will allow these schools to contribute to the simultaneous reconstruction and renewal of the public schools in which teachers work and the…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, College School Cooperation, Educational Change, Educational Finance
Noblit, George, Ed.; Rinne, Dorothy H., Ed. – 1983
In January 1982, the Wake County Board of Education adopted The Schools of Choice Programs. The stated objectives of the Programs were: (1) to improve facility utilization systemwide, (2) to establish a consistent organizational pattern of schools (K-5, 6-8, and 9-12) county-wide, (3) to racially balance student populations of schools, (4) to…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Educational Facilities, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education
Archbald, Douglas A. – 1988
School choice is advocated on the theory that deregulation and greater market control can restructure and improve education. While certain market strategies of improvement are worth exploring, complex production functions, unclear goals, and the political role of education in society limit the extent to which education can be understood and…
Descriptors: Admission (School), Doctoral Dissertations, Economic Factors, Elementary Secondary Education
Ben-Dror, Gideon – 1986
In July 1969, an Israeli parliament decision instigated an educational reform focused on curriculum development, teacher education, new buildings, new equipment, and a change from 8 to 6 years in elementary school and from 4 to 6 years in secondary school. Dropouts, useless curricula, job market demands for better education, and integration and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Advisory Committees, Change Strategies, Curriculum Development
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