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Download full textPeterson-del Mar, David – OSSC Bulletin, 1994
Like school-based management, school-site councils offer some attractive reform possibilities, including broadly based, democratic decision-making; enhanced sensitivity to specific school climates; and widely shared responsibility. Site councils can be ineffective, even harmful, when lacking sufficient support, expertise, and time to succeed. This…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Democracy, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education
Hess, G. Alfred, Jr. – Panel Update, 1994
This document outlines a community-based state school system that allows a large degree of local autonomy in exchange for heightened accountability for school performance. It highlights a model education platform for candidates in the 1994 election. A system of educational excellence for the 21st century would be performance-based, locally…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Assessment, Educational Change, Educational Improvement
Wohlstetter, Priscilla; Mohrman, Susan Albers – 1994
This publication summarizes research that investigated how school-based management (SBM) can be implemented for long-term school improvement. It is argued that a successful SBM plan must be part of a quest for improvement and utilize a "high involvement" model. In addition to having more power, schools need knowledge of the organization,…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Effective Schools Research, Elementary Secondary Education
St. John, Donna – 1989
With the passage of legislation providing financial rewards for merit schools, the Dade County Public Schools and the United Teachers of Dade negotiated a program, now known as the Quality Instruction Incentives Plan (QIIP), designed to recognize significant improvements in student physical and academic achievement. The success of QIIP initiated a…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education, Employer Employee Relationship
Peer reviewedColeman, Peter – Administrator's Notebook, 1983
Research findings, supported by other research projects, identify the elements relevant to school improvement as school focus, school autonomy, and staff development. A chart based on three recent major literature reviews provides a comprehensive listing of supportable assertions regarding unusually effective institutions. (MLF)
Descriptors: Accountability, Change Strategies, Educational Environment, Educational Improvement
Abbott Bulletin, 1998
This document consists of the six issues of the "Abbott Bulletin" published during 1998. The "Abbott Bulletin" is a one-page per issue newsletter that reports on developments in response to a set of rulings by the New Jersey Supreme Court in the Abbott v. Burke case. In its fifth ruling in the Abbott case in May 1998, the Court…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Early Childhood Education, Educational Facilities, Educational Improvement
