Decentralization in the School District with Two Or More High Schools
Author : Richard Vane Jones
Publisher :
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 48,11 MB
Release : 1958
Category : School districts
ISBN :
Author : Richard Vane Jones
Publisher :
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 48,11 MB
Release : 1958
Category : School districts
ISBN :
Author : Harry P. Hatry
Publisher : The Urban Insitute
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 34,8 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780877666127
This report presents the findings and recommendations of an examination of the implementation of a major form of school-based management (SBM). It is based on case studies of the science and mathematics departments of 10 high schools and 9 middle or junior high schools in 12 school systems, almost all of which are urban school districts. The study found that implementation often falls short of the ideal. It did not find dramatic changes resulting from SBM. However, those schools and faculty members that took advantage of their added flexibility under SBM were able to achieve numerous small-scale improvements. The report provides a series of recommendations for school districts and individual schools to increase the likelihood of successful implementation of decentralization efforts such as SBM. The findings and recommendations cover such issues as (1) the extent of decentralization of budgeting expenditure and personnel decisions, (2) the role of site councils and department heads, and (3) communication and training needs. Appendixes list participating schools and districts and contain a literature review. (Contains 117 references.) (Author/SLD)
Author : Samuel Chukwunyere Anugwelem
Publisher :
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 48,11 MB
Release : 1980
Category : School management and organization
ISBN :
Author : Bruce Allen Bimber
Publisher : RAND Corporation
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 18,5 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Education
ISBN :
This study analyzes decisionmaking at four high schools having varying degrees of decentralization and finds that decentralization efforts can fail to significantly change external constraints and decisionmaking authority.
Author : Wisconsin. Legislature. Legislative Council
Publisher :
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 36,43 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Education, Urban
ISBN :
Author : Paul Thomas Hill
Publisher : RAND Corporation
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 15,57 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Education
ISBN :
This report distills the experience of school systems that have instituted site-based management. Site-based management involves shifting the initiatives in public education from schoo boards, superintendents, and central administrative offices to individual schools.
Author : Jean Madsen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 46,37 MB
Release : 2003-12-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 1135716889
The presentation of a practical model showing how three schools dealt with privatization. This study asks whether privatization is a means of improving education and discusses the issues central to successful privatization including the choices for parents.
Author : Allan C. Ornstein
Publisher : Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 24,93 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Education
ISBN :
Author : Daniel J. Brown
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 34,6 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Educational accountability
ISBN : 9781850006015
The aims and origins of decentralization are examined and its effects on school flexibility, accountability, and productivity are explored in some depth. Administrators and others tell their stories. This volume offers an analysis of how school-based management works.
Author : Bruce Allen Bimber
Publisher : RAND Corporation
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 26,26 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Education
ISBN :
It is possible to give a concrete meaning to the usually vague concept of decentralization by examining four core components. First, at the crux of decentralization is a downward shift in decision-making power. Administrative decentralization entails shifts internal to the institution. Political decentralization shifts authority to external forces such as community boards. These two strategies are not mutually exclusive. Second, studies of bureaucracies demonstrate that decentralization is compatible with strong leaders provided that leadership is exercised at lower levels in the administrative hierarchy. Third, decentralization requires the rejection of existing reward structures in favor of a system of incentives that establishes meaningful connections between professional conduct and rewards. Fourth, it is important to design a division of responsibility for ends and means among the district and schools that diminishes the role of explicit rules. Most school districts reflect few of these four principles, and their efforts and decentralization are often marginalized and incomplete. Experiences to date with site-based management, the most common attempt at decentralization, demonstrate the difficulty in producing authentic decentralization. (Contains 51 references.) (TEJ)