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A Review of Research Concerning the Implementation of Site-Based Management.
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Leithwood, Kenneth; Menzies, Teresa – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 1998
Reviews 77 empirical and case studies of school-based management (SBM) implementations reported between 1985 and 1995 to determine typical obstacles and promising ameliorative strategies. There is no firm evidence of SBM's effects on students. Administrative-control SBM would probably produce the least amount of school change. Community-control…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Elementary Secondary Education, Participative Decision Making, Program Evaluation
Value for Money as a School Improvement Strategy: Evidence from the New Inspection System in England.
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Levacic, Rosalind; Glover, Derek – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 1997
Britain's new inspection system requires that schools be assessed for efficiency and value for money. Drawing on a content analysis of 66 secondary school inspection reports, this paper considers implementation problems and whether schools have adopted the rational approach to resource management. Few schools had successfully adopted all elements…
Descriptors: Accountability, Budgets, Educational Improvement, Efficiency
School-based Management: Reconceptualizing To Improve Learning Outcomes.
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Fullan, Michael; Watson, Nancy – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2000
Examines educational decentralization efforts in developed and developing countries. Explores which conditions produce best results and roles and relationships of the school/community and region/center. Summarizes typical reasons for school-based management's failure, highlighting schools' need to build capacity, maintain decentralization, and…
Descriptors: Accountability, Decentralization, Developed Nations, Developing Nations