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Smylie, Mark A.; Crowson, Robert L. – Educational Policy, 1996
Describes the development of a new institutional infrastructure for service coordination in a Chicago university-community-school partnership project. Examines convening and goal-structuring processes, institutional interests and reward systems, relations to external environments, communication linkages, and institutional conventions.…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Educational Change, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education

Crowson, Robert L. – Planning and Changing, 1975
Examines current thinking on the nature of intergovernmental relations, examines the data on the development of the Michigan compensatory education program and the issues that have characterized its administration, and draws some conclusions about the state-local interaction in education and about the leadership capacities of state education…
Descriptors: Accountability, Compensatory Education, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education

Crowson, Robert L.; Morris, Van Cleve – Metropolitan Education, 1987
Examines the implementation of the comprehensive school reform package enacted by the Illinois legislature in 1985. Reform initiatives have produced little controversy in the educational community. District superintendents use the reform law to effect their own, local reform agendas. Superintendents respond to reform pressures by adopting…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Board of Education Policy, Educational Change, Educational Improvement