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Wise, Robert I. – Education and Urban Society, 1981
Discusses implications of the involvement of business in public education. Considers the roles of business as (1) local citizen; (2) curriculum subject; (3) place of work; and (4) place to learn. Also examines requirements for effective school business partnerships and suggests that growing educational interest of employers promises a basis for…
Descriptors: Career Education, Cooperative Programs, Educational Needs, Elementary Secondary Education
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Louis, Karen Seashore; Corwin, Ronald G. – Education and Urban Society, 1984
Analyzes how 13 state education agencies (SEAs) use instrumental strategic and symbolic decisions and structures in attempting to provide leadership for improvements in educational quality. Data suggest that as the difficulties facing them increase, SEAs rely more on the strategic and symbolic dimensions of structure for their own protection. (CMG)
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Decision Making, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education