Article discusses hierarchy and its implications for designing effective management information systems for educational organizations. (Author)

The speaker notes specific areas in which research needs to be done on student alienation, teacher alienation, and the organization of teaching that helps create teacher alienation. (IRT)

Author argued that the success of comprehensive reorganization depends upon a re-definition of the teacher's tasks, and outlines the tasks which now appear to be required of the subject specialist in the new schools. (Editor/RK)

The article describes the political system which operates in an American Indian school and discusses the striking analogy between the school's bureaucratic structure and operation and the structure and operation of a segmentary lineage system. (AUTHOR/NQ)

Evaluative criteria providing subjective and objective responses has been established for the planning, organization, implementation and/or evaluation of a middle school by experts in the middle school concept. Students, parents, staff, and administration should be involved in the evaluation of the middle school's philosophy. By rating statements…

The last decade and a half was dominated by the view that schools do not matter, that schooling makes no difference, and that schools are powerless to change their students' destinies. Current research throws new light on these issues and prompts a questioning of these values. Recent studies present evidence that school experiences can indeed have…

Conditions that influence a school's readiness for change are analyzed in this monograph for the purpose of providing practitioners, especially those who provide assistance to schools, with specific guides for diagnosing readiness for change. The publication is a tool to help school personnel and others make wise and deliberate decisions about…

ALTHOUGH THE DROPOUT PROBLEM IS ONE OF GREAT CONCERN AT BOTH LOCAL AND NATIONAL LEVELS, IT IS READILY APPARENT THAT THE PROBLEM IS NOT THE SAME EVERYWHERE IN THE COUNTRY. DROPOUT RATES VARY CONSIDERABLY FROM ONE COMMUNITY TO ANOTHER, AND EVEN DIFFER BETWEEN HIGH SCHOOLS IN THE SAME SCHOOL SYSTEM. LIMITATIONS IN PREVIOUS STUDIES OF THE PROBLEM HAVE…

SEVERAL CASES OF ORGANIZATION DEVELOPMENT ARE EXAMINED FOR COMMON STRATEGIES APPLIED IN A SELECTED GROUP OF CASES. STUDIES SELECTED MET THE CONCEPT OF ORGANIZATION DEVELOPMENT AND PROVIDED SUFFICIENT INFORMATION TO INDICATE CASE OUTCOME. AFTER SELECTING THE STUDIES, THE STRATEGY AND ISSUES OF EACH WERE IDENTIFIED, AND COMPARISONS WERE MADE OF…

A PLANNED APPROACH TO EDUCATIONAL CHANGE FOCUSES UPON THE INTERNAL FUNCTIONING OF THE SCHOOL SYSTEM. RESEARCH GENERALIZATIONS INDICATING CONDITIONS WHICH INFLUENCE LEARNING ARE CITED AS A BASIS FOR A CONCEPTUAL MODEL. FROM THIS MODEL, SOME ORGANIZATIONAL FUNCTIONS WHICH NEED TO BE DEVELOPED WITHIN THE SCHOOL SYSTEM ARE DERIVED. FIVE LEVELS OF…

This project collected data on the current status of middle schools in the United States. After the compilation of a list of schools meeting the survey definition of middle schools from State departments of education and other sources, a survey instrument was used to secure the following detailed data from a 10 percent random sample (110 schools)…

Early in its deliberations, the Advisory Task Force on Declining Enrollment divided into six subcommittees, each charged with investigating and making recommendations on one phase of the declining enrollment problem. Part 1 of this report is made up of digests of the efforts of these subcommittees. The six areas studied are operational costs per…

This study asserts that 2-year institutions, which of necessity establish a pragmatic philosophy of concern for the immediate, must examine their goals and direction. The study hopes to clarify the philosophical debate between the transfer and the career function of the 2-year institution. The fundamental question is whether a single-purpose…

To test the influence of principals, subject matter experts, and department chairmen upon teacher decisions, an experiment was conducted with secondary school social studies teachers, principals, and department chairmen as participants. While the results of the experiment were uniformly nonsignificant, respondents generally concurred that the…