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School Governance Making It Better

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001

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School Governance

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Author : Great Britain. Office for Standards in Education (England)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001

School Governance written by Great Britain. Office for Standards in Education (England) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Education categories.

Improving School Governance

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Author : Nigel Gann
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 1998

Improving School Governance written by Nigel Gann and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Education categories.

This text is about governing schools. It lays out a strategic model of school governance and considers the three key roles of planning, monitoring and evaluating. Practical examples and procedures are provided, for governors to adapt.

Making It Better

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001

Making It Better written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with School boards categories.

Making Schools More Effective

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Author : Barry McGaw
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993

Making Schools More Effective written by Barry McGaw and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Education categories.

Presents the findings of an Australia-wide project managed by the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER), which sought the views of teachers, students, parents and other interested individuals on how Australia's schools might be made more effective. The research covers curriculum, staffing, parent and student involvement, and the administration of schools. Included are tables of survey responses and a list of references. Co-authors are Kevin Piper, Diana Banks and Beryl Evans.

School Reform Corporate Style

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Author : Dorothy Shipps
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006

School Reform Corporate Style written by Dorothy Shipps and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Education categories.

Like other big city school systems, Chicago's has been repeatedly "reformed" over the last century. Yet its schools have fallen far short of citizens' expectations and left a gap between the performances of white and minority students. Many blame the educational establishment for resisting change. Other critics argue that reform occurs too often; still others claim it comes not often enough. Dorothy Shipps reappraises the tumultuous history of educational progress in Chicago, revealing that the persistent lack of improvement is due not to the extent but rather the type of reform. Throughout the twentieth century, managerial reorganizations initiated by the business community repeatedly altered the governance structure of schools—as well as the relationships of teachers to children and parents—but brought little improvement, while other more promising reform models were either resisted or crowded out. Shipps chronicles how Chicago's corporate actors led, abetted, or restrained nearly every attempt to transform the city's school system, then asks whether schools might be better reformed by others. To show why city schools have failed urban children so badly, she traces Chicago's reform history over four political eras, revealing how corporate power was instrumental in designing and revamping the system. Her narrative encompasses the formative era of 1880-1930, when teachers' unions moderated business plans; previously unexplored business activism from 1930 to 1980, when civil rights dominated school reform, and the decentralization of the 1980s. She also covers the uneasy cooperation among business associations in the 1990s to install the mayor as head of the school system, a governing regime now challenged by privatization advocates. Business people may be too wedded to a stunted view of educators to forge a productive partnership for change. Unionized teachers bridle at the second-class status accorded them by managers. If reform is to reach deeply into classrooms, Shipps concludes, it might well require a new coalition of teachers' unions and parents to create a fresh agenda that supersedes corporate interests. This study clearly shows that, in Chicago as elsewhere, urban schooling is intertwined with politics and power. By reviewing more than a century of corporate efforts to make education work, Shipps makes a strong case that it's high time to look elsewhere—perhaps to educators themselves—for new leadership.

Controlling Public Education

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Author : Kathryn A. McDermott
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999

Controlling Public Education written by Kathryn A. McDermott and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Education categories.

Most Americans believe that local school districts are the only means by which citizens may exercise control over public education. Kathryn McDermott argues to the contrary that existing local institutions are no longer sufficient for achieving either equity or democratic governance. Not only is local control inequitable, it also fails to live up to its reputation for guaranteeing public participation and citizen influence. Drawing upon democratic theory and the results of field research in New Haven, Connecticut, and three suburbs, McDermott contends that our educational system can be made more democratic by centralizing control over funding while decentralizing most authority over schools to the level of schools themselves while enacting public school choice controlled for racial balance. To many people in Connecticut and elsewhere, the tension between equal opportunity for all students and local control of public education seems impossible to resolve. In 1996, the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled in Sheff v. O'Neill that local control produces unconstitutional segregation of public schools. Nearly all of the state's 169 towns operate their own public schools, and, like the towns they serve, the schools are generally homogeneous with respect to race and socioeconomic class. In the Sheff ruling, the court declared that making school districts coterminous with town lines "is the single most important factor contributing to the present concentration of racial and ethnic minorities in the Hartford public school system." At the same time, the court also acknowledged that the town-based school system "presently furthers the legitimate nonracial interests of permitting considerable local control and accountability in educational matters." In Connecticut and elsewhere, it has often seemed necessary to choose between local control and equity in public education, and local control has almost always won. McDermott argues that rather than seeing local control and equity as conflicting goals, policymakers should regard them as equally important components of democracy in public education. In her view, a truly democratic system of education should both encourage citizen participation in school governance and contribute to the formation and maintenance of a social order in which equality of opportunity prevails over hierarchies of privilege. Centralizing distribution of resources and using controlled choice to end racial isolation would provide greater equality of opportunity, while decentralizing management of schools would expand citizen participation. McDermott's conclusions break new ground in our understanding of local school governance itself and call into question the conventional wisdom about local participation. These findings should interest those who study school governance and reform—especially in an urban setting—as well as policy makers, administrators, teachers, students, and citizens eager to improve their schools.

Modernizing School Governance For Educational Equality And Diversity

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Author : Paul West Cook
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972

Modernizing School Governance For Educational Equality And Diversity written by Paul West Cook and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with School management and organization categories.

...Analysis of current conditions, recommendations for reorganization of the system of administration of the public schools...

Building Trust For Better Schools

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Author : Julie Reed Kochanek
language : en
Publisher: Corwin
Release Date : 2005-04-27

Building Trust For Better Schools written by Julie Reed Kochanek and has been published by Corwin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-04-27 with Education categories.

"While trust has been shown as a key mechanism for facilitating school improvement, how that can be accomplished is not altogether clear. In this excellent book, Kochanek, through in-depth case studies and sophisticated quantitative analyses of data from a large urban school system, convincingly demonstrates how principal leadership can promote and sustain trust among administrators, teachers, and parents."-Barbara Schneider, Professor of Sociology University of Chicago "Kochanek′s book not only clearly explains the theoretical underpinnings of trust development in schools, but also provides rich case studies that explore this theory in action."-Carmen Manning, Assistant Professor of English Education University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Why is trust in schools so important? What does trust mean to a school′s productivity? Relationships between principals, teachers, and parents cannot be ignored when attempting school reform. No matter how innovative the changes or ideas, reform is unlikely to succeed unless the adults work together to implement it. Building Trust for Better Schools answers the question of how to build trust within the school community. Parents are dependent on teachers to educate their children. Teachers are dependent on principals to create school conditions that are conducive to helping children learn. This excellent new resource identifies links between the growth of trust and positive organizational outcomes that benefit school improvement efforts. But how do we build trust? Kochanek offers an innovative process model of trust building. Increased trust in schools: Fosters participation among faculty in school reform efforts Creates a greater openness to innovation among teachers Increases outreach to parents Produces even higher academic productivity in schools There is a need for efficient sharing of information in schools across role relationships. This can be done with the building of trust between principals, teachers, and parents as they work together toward a common goal!

The Future Of Governing

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Author : B. Guy Peters
language : en
Publisher: Studies in Government and Public Policy
Release Date : 2001

The Future Of Governing written by B. Guy Peters and has been published by Studies in Government and Public Policy this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Current Events categories.

Examines and compares various forms of government in industrialized countries.