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James, Michael A.; Boyles, Lyle E. – 1985
To improve the existing junior high school's academic and activities programs as well as the school environment, a school superintendent and a middle school consultant teamed with others to effect the transition of a 7-9 grade junior high school plan to a 6-8 grade middle school plan in Augusta, Kansas. The overall plan was basically simple and…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, College School Cooperation, Community Support, Consultants
Zemsky, Robert – 1981
Issues pertaining to educational finance in colleges and universities are considered. It is suggested that solving problems of organization will lead to shifts in management style, which in turn may affect flows of funds to disciplines. The outcome may be a change in academic scope and either limiting or expanding institutional opportunities. The…
Descriptors: Budgeting, College Administration, College Curriculum, College Planning
Peat, Marwick, Mitchell and Co., New York, NY. – 1982
Future changes that may affect higher education and management approaches that should be used by governing boards and administrators are discussed. Population trends that will affect academic and support programs are noted, and it is suggested that a declining demand from traditional students may cause institutions to specialize in selected…
Descriptors: Administrative Change, Administrators, Change Strategies, College Administration
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Schafer, Duane F. – Catholic Education: A Journal of Inquiry and Practice, 2005
This review examines several topics that inform many struggles currently experienced in the relationship between a canonical pastor and the principal of the parochial elementary school. Drawing on current research, this review examines various leadership theories, including the popular servant leadership model, and proceeds to a discussion of role…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Catholic Schools, Governance, Principals
Matuszek, Paula A.; And Others – 1976
This evaluation of the quarter system in Austin, Texas, public schools was designed to assess the impact of changes of calendar, curriculum, and other aspects of high school education. The initial first-year evaluation was intended to gather data that could serve as a baseline for examining the long-term effects of these changes. Data were…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Curriculum, Educational Counseling, Graduation Requirements
Hopkins, Charles E.; Sullivan, Margaret M. – 1981
An approach to assess organizational change within the university is considered. The research approach was designed to use the strength of the university to examine and document an organizational change that evolved over time and resulted in unplanned outcomes is described. Important decisions that influenced the design of the survey instrument…
Descriptors: College Role, Decision Making, Economic Factors, Evaluation Methods
Ashton, Patricia; And Others – 1981
The attitudes of middle and junior high school teachers toward their job and school climate are compared in this study. Twenty-nine teachers from a school having a modern middle school orientation (multi-age grouping, exploratory curriculum, and an interdisciplinary team organization) were compared with twenty teachers from a departmentally…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Environment, Educational Practices, Institutional Characteristics
Levinson-Rose, Judith; Menges, Robert J. – 1982
A framework for articulating postsecondary instructional programs is described. The framework identifies two important sources of influence on programs: the type of institution within which the program operates and the program objectives. These factors influence both program components and how these components are linked and processes that are…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Administration, College Instruction, College Programs
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Paris (France). – 1979
This dual-language catalog contains abstracts of 188 documents prepared for the 1977 International Conference on Education. The documents describe educational policies toward development, major trends in education, and the problem of information at the national and international levels posed by the improvement of educational systems. Abstracts are…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Annotated Bibliographies, Catalogs, Comparative Education
Packard, John S.; And Others – 1978
This final report summarizes the Management Implications of Team Teaching Study. Subjects for the study were 29 elementary schools in Kentucky, Virginia, New Jersey, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire. Interviews and questionnaires were used to collect data from 1974 to 1976. The prime study described by W. W. Charters in Part 1 was designed to…
Descriptors: Administration, Communication (Thought Transfer), Decision Making, Educational Innovation
Toombs, William; Sagaria, Mary Ann – 1978
Data collection and analyses of college records and interviewing provided a cross-sectional view of data flow and information transmission in a small college. The micro-analysis of interview data, forms, and reports yielded a picture of functional relationships, clarified loci of decision making, and stipulated functions served by data items.…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrative Policy, College Administration, College Planning
Hermann, Graham – 1979
The 1973 British Green Paper on post-school education is considered with respect to emphasis in higher and further education, the structure of higher and further education, the comprehensive principle, and recurrent education principles. The Green Paper recommended the restructuring of the education of the post-16-year-olds into two sectors based…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Articulation (Education), College Students, Continuing Education
GOSS, DALE; LITTLE, ELMO – 1967
THIS PROFILE OF THE NEW BEACON LEARNING CENTER, AN EXPERIMENTAL SCHOOL, DESCRIBES THE "CONTINUOUS PROGRESS CONCEPT," A PLAN TO IMPROVE EDUCATIONAL QUALITY AND RACIAL BALANCE, PROPOSED HERE FOR THE INTERMEDIATE GRADES. SEVERAL NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOLS WOULD PROVIDE THE STUDENT POPULATION OF THIS EDUCATIONAL COMPLEX. THE SIZE OF THE CENTER…
Descriptors: Community Resources, Decentralization, Educational Complexes, Educational Equipment
BRODBECK, ARTHUR J.; LANG, GLADYS E. – 1966
EDUCATIONAL INEQUALITY IN BUFFALO HAS LED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF A PLAN FOR PROGRESSIVE ELIMINATION OF RACIAL IMBALANCE AND PROVISION OF INCREASED EDUCATIONAL QUALITY AND OPPORTUNITIES. CITIZEN OPINIONS, OBTAINED THROUGH INTERVIEWS, RESULTED IN A MODIFICATION OF THE "4-4-4 PLAN" (DIVISION OF GRADES 1-12 INTO THREE SCHOOLS, EACH WITH FOUR…
Descriptors: Black Students, Community Development, Costs, Disadvantaged Youth
Browning, Peter – 1980
Current and incipient problems in educational administration in England can be grouped into two areas: those resulting from reorganization and those arising from social and political factors. Many problems faced by educational administrators result from school reorganization that is a result of an increase in the number of comprehensive schools.…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrative Problems, Centralization, Community Control
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