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Direct linkHonig, Meredith I.; Rainey, Lydia R. – Educational Policy, 2012
New "autonomy initiatives" aim to increase schools' decision-making authority as a strategy to leverage school improvement. These policies build on lessons of previous reforms such as site-based management in ways that bode well for their success. However, how are these policies actually faring in implementation? The authors addressed that…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Institutional Autonomy, Decision Making
Download full textHeyward, Mark; Cannon, Robert A.; Sarjono – RTI International, 2011
Indonesia, the world's fourth most populous nation, has been decentralizing its education sector for the past decade. In this context, school-based management is essential for improving the quality of education. A mixed-method, multisite assessment of a project that aimed to improve the management and governance of basic education in Indonesia…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Technical Assistance, Foreign Countries, Educational Change
Moore, Forrest W. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The primary objective of this qualitative study is to explore the impact of autonomy on the relationship between schools and districts of the school level across governance, operations, curriculum and instruction and the decision making that accompanies the each of these factors. More specifically, this study focuses the impact of autonomy within…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Program Effectiveness, Educational Change, Administrative Organization
Peer reviewedGamage, David T.; And Others – Journal of Educational Administration, 1996
Describes a 1992-93 research project involving 66 state schools that attempted to ascertain the overall effectiveness of school-based management in Victoria, Australia. Findings of the Likert-style survey revealed substantial participant satisfaction with school councils' current composition, information provision, and overall functioning. (20…
Descriptors: Decentralization, Democratic Values, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Reimers, Fernando; Cardenas, Sergio – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2007
In this article the authors examine evidence pertaining to the implementation of a national programme of school-based decentralization, the Quality Schools Programme ("Programa de Escuelas de Calidad"). The main argument of this article is that high levels of inequality in the institutional capacity of different schools and in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Urban Schools, School Based Management, Educational Opportunities
Peer reviewedBrown, Bruce Robert; Cooper, G. Robb – NASSP Bulletin, 2000
A study conducted in an Illinois metropolitan school district explored four dimensions of school-based management implementation: school leadership, school climate, student achievement, and community involvement. Survey data from 176 teachers, 42 parents, and 6 administrators revealed that length of program involvement positively influenced…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Involvement, Elementary Secondary Education, Governance
Gertler, Paul; Patrinos, Harry; Rubio-Codina, Marta – World Bank Publications, 2006
Mexico's compensatory education program provides extra resources to primary schools that enroll disadvantaged students in highly disadvantaged rural communities. One of the most important components of the program is the school-based management intervention known as Apoyo a la Gestion Escolar, (AGEs). The impact of the AGEs is assessed on…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Transfer Programs, School Based Management
