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Peer reviewedBush, Tony; And Others – Educational Management and Administration, 1993
The provision for schools to waive local education authority control and become self-governing was the most radical element of Britain's 1988 Education Reform Act. A survey of five opted-out primary schools shows that larger schools succeed better at self-governance because of economies of scale; clustering smaller schools into groups with single…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational Change, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
