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Peer reviewedCistone, Peter J.; And Others – Education and Urban Society, 1989
Summarizes the historical background, planning, and implementation of a School-Based Management/Shared Decision Making (SBM/SDM) program in Dade County (Florida). Highlights interim evaluation findings and recommendations. (FMW)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Participative Decision Making, Pilot Projects, Program Development
Download full textPatriarca, Linda A.; Cegelka, Patricia Thomas – 1992
This paper describes research needs in light of changes taking place in school-based practice in both general and special education. The tenets of educational reform and societal concerns fueling demands for reform are identified. The context in which changes in educational practices are occurring is described, focusing on evolving relationships…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Disabilities, Educational Change, Educational Practices
Peer reviewedCistone, Peter J. – Education and Urban Society, 1989
Compares the restructuring of educational governance using school-based management/shared decision making (SBM/SDM) to restructuring of Soviet government under the "perestroika" program. Reviews the other six articles in the theme issue. (FMW)
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Decentralization, Elementary Secondary Education, Governance
Peer reviewedBrady, Laurie – Journal of Educational Administration, 1984
A study of 20 representative primary schools in New South Wales, Australia, revealed that a high degree of principal supportiveness as measured by the Organizational Climate Description Questionnaire was associated positively with curriculum decision making by staff groups and negatively with curriculum decision-making by individual teachers. (PGD)
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, Curriculum Development, Foreign Countries
Pink, William T.; Wallace, David K. – 1984
The initial conceptualization and subsequent development of the Effective Schools Pilot Project in the Kansas City (Missouri) Public Schools is described in this paper. Five K-6 schools and one school containing a kindergarten and grades 5 and 6 were the locus for the project that involved school-site teams working in collaboration with both…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Change Strategies, College School Cooperation, Cooperative Planning
Duttweiler, Patricia Cloud – 1988
Factors that contribute to excellence in education, as well as those that have contributed to the failure of change efforts, are the subject of this document. It provides a summary of the literature on reform efforts; effective schools; new organizational perspectives derived from the business sector; organizational restructuring being tested in…
Descriptors: Administrator Effectiveness, Change Strategies, Educational Change, Effective Schools Research
Karst, Ralph R. – 1996
This paper proposes a model of a democratic paradigm for educational researchers and practitioners. It attempts to explore the kinds of thinking that would be required to create such a system, to determine what principles and curriculum theories are involved and how they would work. It seeks to relate this model to the new National Council for…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Administrator Education, Curriculum Research, Democratic Values
