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Mutchler, Sue E.; Duttweiler, Patricia C. – 1990
The strategies for school based management and shared decision making are seldom studied together. A written survey administered to practitioners currently using one or both of the strategies provides information for the implementation of shared decision making. Methodological limitations include a sample of 230 site personnel with a response rate…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education, Institutional Autonomy, Participative Decision Making
Berne, Robert; And Others – 1995
Since 1993, school reform leaders from Chicago (Illinois), Denver (Colorado), New York (New York), Seattle (Washington), and Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) have come together in the Cross City Campaign to work for the improvement of urban education. In each of these cities rhetorical pleas for decentralization and the investment of decision making in…
Descriptors: Central Office Administrators, Centralization, Community Control, Decentralization
Leitner, Erich, Ed. – 1998
The conference papers examine higher education reforms in the countries of Eastern and Central Europe from several research perspectives: political, economic, pedagogical, and sociological. Papers are organized in three sections: Higher Education Policies and Institutional Change; Central European Higher Education in Transition; and Higher…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Decision Making, Educational Change, Educational Environment
Young, Timothy W.; Mah, Dennis – New Schools, New Communities, 1994
Discusses one example of successful school restructuring by means of an examination of California's Bowling Green Elementary School. Key contributing elements discussed are having a low student-to-teacher ratio; using integrated thematic instruction; developing an efficacy approach; mastering adopted standards; and developing site-based decision…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Cooperative Planning, Decision Making, Educational Improvement