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Download full textScott, W. Richard; Meyer, John W. – 1984
The environment within which an organization must operate is expected to influence its administrative and program characteristics. Since public schools operate in more complex and conflicting environments than do private schools, it is predicted that they will exhibit greater administrative complexity and less curricular coherence. These…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Comparative Analysis, Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedHendrick, William Edward; Ortiz, Flora Ida – Research in Rural Education, 1986
Shows how county superintendent of schools office was created to provide public services and evolved into highly bureaucratized organization. Examines complexity of society; legislated mandates/authorizations for services relationship to state department of education; quality of leadership; interaction with county board of education;…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrators, Bureaucracy, Educational History
Ballantyne, Marina; And Others – 1984
The Institute for Research on Educational Finance and Governance (IFG) has designed and implemented a major survey of public and private schools in the six-county San Francisco Bay Area which focuses on organizational dimensions in elementary and secondary schools. Private schools include Catholic parochial and private schools, independent…
Descriptors: Charts, Comparative Analysis, Data Analysis, Data Collection
