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Fanny Isensee – Palgrave Macmillan, 2025
This book examines the historical development of age-graded classrooms, a defining feature of modern public education that became embedded in the "grammar of schooling"--the fundamental organizational structures that shape how schools operate. Focusing on the implementation of gradation in New York City, the study traces the…
Descriptors: Public Schools, School Organization, Educational History, Educational Development
Liebowitz, David; González, Pablo; Hooge, Edith; Lima, Gonçalo – OECD Publishing, 2018
This country review offers an independent analysis of major issues facing the use of school resources in Portugal from an international perspective. It provides a description of national policies, an analysis of strengths and challenges and options for possible future approaches. The analysis focuses on the process of decentralisation of school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Resources, Educational Policy, Administrative Organization
Allen, Robert; Layer, Geoff – 1995
This book discusses organizational, management and professional dimensions of change as credit-based systems are introduced in higher education institutions in the United Kingdom. Credit-based systems are taken to mean the flexible academic structures based around the parallel but interrelated concepts of credit and modularity. They are being…
Descriptors: Administrative Change, Administrative Organization, Administrative Principles, Articulation (Education)