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Zhao, Yong; Emler, Trina E.; Snethen, Anthony; Yin, Danqing – Teachers College Press, 2019
Discover how education innovations can produce astonishing results in student success both in and out of school. The educators featured in this book were motivated by the conviction that even the best status quo education was not serving current student needs. They responded with radical changes that tap into recent ideas about educational…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Educational Change, Change Strategies, Student Centered Learning
McCloskey, Stephen – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021
This book argues that the international development sector is in crisis which can be mostly sourced to its side-stepping the dominant development question of our age, the neoliberal growth paradigm. It argues that this crisis can be addressed, at least in part, by the sector's re-engagement with the radical development education process that it…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Neoliberalism, Capacity Building, Educational Development
Grossman, Jean Baldwin; Quint, Janet; Gingrich, Jessica; Cerna, Oscar; Diamond, John; Levine, Andrew; Willard, Jacklyn – MDRC, 2015
Community colleges enroll almost half of the undergraduates in the United States and provide students the option to earn a degree at a lower cost and offer more flexible class schedules than four-year colleges. However, among first-time, full-time degree-seeking students entering public two-year schools, only about 20 percent graduate with a…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Access to Education, Change Strategies
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Hodgkin, Marian – Current Issues in Comparative Education, 2007
This paper examines an important component of the developing field of education in emergencies: curriculum decision-making processes. The paper argues that in order to fully meet the commitment articulated by the INEE Minimum Standards to provide quality education for all, curricula decisions cannot be ignored or postponed until after a crisis has…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Educational Quality, Participative Decision Making, Alignment (Education)
Rosenblum, Sheila; And Others – 1991
For the use of teachers and administrators involved in designing and maintaining structures that promote teacher and student engagement, two case studies using pseudonyms were prepared for classroom discussion. The first case, "Hillside High School," describes the process of reforming a traditional school. The second, "City Park Secondary School,"…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Educational Change, Participative Decision Making, School Restructuring
Mahon, J. Patrick – Executive Educator, 1991
Sharing decision making with teachers and parents actually increases the principal's influence. Offers 10 steps to translate leadership skills into school restructuring. (MLF)
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Participative Decision Making
National Education Association, Washington, DC. – 1994
This booklet contains the stories of six teachers who discuss, step by step, how they each handled a specific restructuring challenge in their schools. They describe what strategies worked and what did not, and provide diagrams and checklists to help other teachers. Chapter 1 describes the implementation of a collaborative school-based…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Participative Decision Making, School Based Management
Lilly, Edward R. – 1985
Quality circles are groups of people performing similar work that meet regularly to improve their work settings. Since the quality circle is a means for organizational change, it is helpful to place the concept within the literature of organizational change in the field of educational administration. With the use of quality circles, change occurs…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Decision Making, Educational Administration, Educational Change
Jenkins, Kenneth; Houlihan, G. Thomas – Executive Educator, 1990
A state-sponsored pilot program is allowing the faculty at two North Carolina schools to experiment with school reform. Lead teachers serve as instructional leaders and coordinate teachers' efforts to develop class schedules, plan and organize inservice training, and analyze test scores. (MLF)
Descriptors: Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Leadership, Master Teachers
Moeser, Elliott L.; Golen, Leonard L. – Spectrum, 1987
To improve the quality of education, Duluth Public Schools (Minnesota) implemented a participative management program using a Quality of Work Life process developed by a diversified labor management committee. The process, which recognizes the skills and creativity of all staff, solves everyday problems while building greater staff commitment to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Participative Decision Making
Chenoweth, Thomas G.; Everhart, Robert B. – 2002
Leadership for school change, this book contends, must be shared. Administrators, teachers, staff, parents, and community members must become more knowledgeable about the change process and more proficient at working through it. This book provides guidance and resources for school leadership teams and practitioners and students of change. The…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Leaders Guides
Carlos, Lisa; Amsler, Mary – 1993
Site-based management (SBM) is an increasingly popular approach to school restructuring. SBM aims to transfer authority from state agencies and school districts to committees based at schools. To garner a consensus supporting reform, these committees are to be representative of educational and community members. SBM plans are characterized by: (1)…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Decentralization, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
Benjamin, Roger; And Others – 1993
This report, part of a project called "Redesigning Higher Education", argues that a set of fundamental changes underlies the growing number of critical difficulties faced by higher education in the United States. It finds the governance structures of American higher education inadequate to deal with a changing and increasingly cost-conscious…
Descriptors: College Administration, Educational Change, Educational Environment, Financial Exigency
Koppich, Julia E.; Kerchner, Charles T. – 1988
The purposes of the Trust Agreement Project are to develop new forms of school organization and new patterns of relationships among teachers and school administrators, and to expand the range of labor-management discussions in education. Six California school districts participated in this experiment by selecting an area of educational policy in…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, Educational Change, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
Perez, Anna L. Valdez; Milstein, Mike M.; Wood, Carolyn J.; Jacquez, David – 1999
This book is designed to help administrators with school reform to improve levels of teaching and learning. The text is based on key findings from school-change literature, as well as first-hand experiences in the process of school reform. It addresses how to develop a collective vision, how to provide professional development, how to involve…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Change Strategies, Educational Change, Educational Improvement
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