NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 4 results Save | Export
Curriculum Reform with a School-Based Approach: Intellectual, Structural and Cultural Challenges
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Lee, Theodore; Cheng, Yin Cheong; Ko, James – School Leadership & Management, 2018
Curriculum reform with a school-based approach is often assumed to offer schools and teachers autonomy at the site level, thus enabling them to develop a school-based curriculum and pedagogies to better fit the needs of students. Over the past decade, school-based curriculum development in Hong Kong has encountered issues that deserve worldwide…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Curriculum Development, Foreign Countries, Educational Environment
A Recent Swedish Attempt to Weaken State Control and Strengthen School Autonomy: The Experiment with Local Time Schedules
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Ronnberg, Linda – European Educational Research Journal, 2007
In 1999, after a series of far-reaching reforms aiming at decentralisation, deregulation and increased local autonomy in Swedish education, the Government decided to introduce a five-year experiment, which would develop these reform efforts even further. Even though Swedish compulsory schools already were the most autonomous in Europe with regard…
Descriptors: Freedom, Time Management, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
Case Studies of Leading Edge Small Urban High Schools. Relevance Strategic Designs: 5. Life Academy of Health and Bioscience
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Shields, Regis Anne; Ireland, Nicole; City, Elizabeth; Derderian, Julie; Miles, Karen Hawley – Education Resource Strategies, 2008
This report is one of nine detailed case studies of small urban high schools that served as the foundation for the Education Resource Strategies (ERS) report "Strategic Designs: Lessons from Leading Edge Small Urban High Schools." These nine schools were dubbed "Leading Edge Schools" because they stand apart from other high…
Descriptors: Small Schools, Urban Schools, High Schools, Case Studies
Case Studies of Leading Edge Small Urban High Schools. Personalization Strategic Designs: 9. MetWest High School
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Shields, Regis Anne; Ireland, Nicole; City, Elizabeth; Derderian, Julie; Miles, Karen Hawley – Education Resource Strategies, 2008
This report is one of nine detailed case studies of small urban high schools that served as the foundation for the Education Resource Strategies (ERS) report "Strategic Designs: Lessons from Leading Edge Small Urban High Schools." These nine schools were dubbed "Leading Edge Schools" because they stand apart from other high…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Small Schools, Urban Schools, High Schools