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Peer reviewedSmithson, Alan – Journal of Educational Administration, 1985
This article closes off a debate in this journal between the author and James D. Kaminsky concerning the latter's philosophical analysis of a "Freedom and Authority Memorandum" delivered to South Australian public schools in the early 1970s by then Director-General of Education, A. W. Jones. (TE)
Descriptors: Community Control, Curriculum, Democracy, Democratic Values
Peer reviewedLee, Valerie E.; Smith, Julia B. – Sociology of Education, 1993
Reports on a study of the impact of attending restructured schools on the achievement and engagement of 8,845 eighth graders from public, Catholic, and independent schools. Finds modest, but consistently positive, effects on both achievement and engagement. Also finds that students attending smaller schools demonstrated more academic achievement.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Control, Educational Change, Grade 8
McBeath, Gerald A.; And Others – 1984
A 3-year study of decentralization of Alaska schools identified several factors that influenced whether a school was locally controlled and found patterns of control associated in important ways with staff and community attitudes toward school. Information was gathered by surveys and interviews conducted in 28 communities randomly selected to…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Alaska Natives, American Indian Education, Boards of Education
Peer reviewedWilson, Michael – Arts Education Policy Review, 1996
Summarizes data extracted from a national survey of Canadian provinces concerning educational policy towards arts education. Discovers greater centralized control in the more populous provinces with the remote areas ceding authority to local boards. Different provinces appear to conceive of the arts in significantly different ways. (MJP)
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Art Education, Community Control, Data Collection


