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Download full textEnglish, Fenwick W. – The Practitioner, 1989
School-site management embodies the concept that decisions should be made at the lowest possible level in organizations and intends that no decision be made without the input of those affected by them. The concept also suggests the empowerment of individual units of the system, particularly, the teachers. Centralization versus decentralization is…
Descriptors: Centralization, Decentralization, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education
Boris-Schacter, Sheryl, Ed. – New Directions for School Leadership, 1999
This book examines how the shift toward school-based management affects the relationship between principals and superintendents. The 11 chapters were written by 5 pairs of superintendents and principals who were asked to reflect on these changes in education. The contributors were instructed not to focus on the particulars of an individual but to…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Leadership
Liontos, Lynn Balster – OSSC Bulletin, 1993
The purpose of this Bulletin is to clarify the intent of shared decision making (SDM) and explore its benefits, drawbacks, and implementation. It looks at how the principal's role changes in SDM, stresses the need for training, examines conditions that affect successful implementation of SDM, and offers ideas on how schools can concentrate on…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education, Participative Decision Making
Hixson, Judson – Policy Briefs, 1990
School-based management and teacher empowerment are consistent elements of school restructuring efforts nationwide. These developments have grown out of frustration over the failure of centralized efforts to significantly improve schools and increase support for individual empowerment. Teacher empowerment is based on four assumptions: (1)…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education, Public Schools
Bowyer, Charles; And Others – Insights on Educational Policy and Practice, 1989
School restructuring requires the critical assessment of all aspects of the educational system, including the goals of schooling; organization and management at the local, district, and state levels, curriculum; instruction; roles and responsibilities of educational personnel, students, and parents; school finance; and education regulation and…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Decentralization, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education
Miller, Edward, Ed. – Harvard Education Letter, 1995
This document is comprised of volume 11 of the Harvard Education Letter, published bimonthly and addressing current issues in elementary and secondary education. Articles in the volume's six issues are: (1) January-February--"The Old Model of Staff Development Survives in a World Where Everything Else Has Changed" (Miller), "Giving…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Child Abuse, Computer Uses in Education, Decision Making
