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Download full textFranceschini, Louis A., III – 2002
The Memphis Restructuring Initiative (MRI) was an attempt at comprehensive school reform in Tennessee that ended with a whimper. Its downfall seems to involve some sort of "schismogenesis" or "inversion," in which many teachers violently reacted against being overworked and overwhelmed, culminating in the easy discarding of 8…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Political Influences, Program Administration
Academic Senate for California Community Colleges, Sacramento. – 1998
Developed by the Academic Senate Educational Policies Committee, this document focuses on program discontinuance issues faced by local academic senates. Addressed foremost is the need to identify key factors for developing a fair, equitable, and faculty-driven program discontinuance process. Although college districts are required by current…
Descriptors: College Administration, Community Colleges, Curriculum Problems, Educational Assessment
Davies, Gordon K. – 1987
The 10-year report of Virginia's Director of the State Council for Higher Education gives an overview of trends and changes in the state's institutions during that period, examines strategies for the future of the state's higher education planning, and discusses the role of technology in knowledge development. It outlines the broad principles of…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Educational Change, Educational History, Educational Quality
