Schools with custodial structure, punitive structure, and no structure are good for three things--maintenance, punishment, and nothing. Schools must have a structure that encourages their real objective--to develop skill, knowledge, appetite, and discipline for living. (Author/IRT)

Theoretical analysis of the structural (institutional) framework involving the regulation of the school system in French-speaking Belgium. (Contains 29 references.) (PKP)

Develops a framework for analyzing the politics of school organizations, affirming a Weberian perspective as most appropriate. Develops "logic of action" (the implicit relationship between means and goals) as the focal point of organizational politics. Underlines the importance of analyzing interest groups and their strategies. Political…

The citizens of Norfolk, Virginia, challenged educators to preserve a large, comprehensive high school while implementing a small-school concept. Staff responded by establishing four academies within the larger school that conveyed the feeling of smallness. Administration is decentralized, and special classes and computer labs are held outside the…

Seemingly endless tinkering and adjustment of the structure of education in the United States over the past century have led to the adoption of different school forms (grouping particular grades into separate schools) at different times. These different school forms necessitate transitions between schools (e.g., from a middle school to a high…

The differences among international schools have important educational and economic implications for international education. From a foundation of theory developed for the business world, this article examines ways in which school leaders can consciously differentiate their schools to improve the quality of education and better assure the fiscal…

A large proportion of teachers throughout the world teach in multigrade classrooms, or classes with more than one grade level. It is reliably predicted that the number of multigrade classes will increase in the future. This paper addresses the issue of teacher education for multigrade. The main thesis of this paper is that the professional…

In 1999, on the eve of rationalisation of South African higher education, J. M. Coetzee published a book entitled "Disgrace". In this publication he narrates the tale of a Classics and Modern Languages professor transformed into an adjunct professor of Communications, a marketable identity, as a consequence of rationalisation. Coetzee,…

Headmasters respectively of a primary and secondary school in Stevenage, authors examined the gradual transition to comprehensive provision in a new town. (Editor/RK)

Lutterworth Grammar School for 500 selective children, to which the author was appointed Headmaster in 1962, became a 14-plus Upper School under the Leicestershire Plan in 1967. Here he recounts the school's responses as it developed to a fully comprehensive Upper School for 1200. (Editor/RK)

Since 1967, a series of legal actions initiated by parents and ratepayers has led to a major revision of part of the Education Act of 1944 and to judicial reinterpretation of other sections of it. (Author/IRT)

The issue of retrenchment as an organizational adaptation to changing conditions is discussed here in relation to four interrelated policy questions: What is the economic future of schooling? What economic assumptions underlie the institutional model of school organization? How could economics be interpreted in terms of a human investment model of…

This postdoctoral fellowship program involved the following three phases: 1) systematic instruction in the sociology of complex organizations with particular emphasis on the organizational analysis of schools and schooling; 2) systematic instruction in multivariate regression approaches to non-experimental research with particular emphasis on…