This article is a study of private school mission/vision statements using content analysis. Statements from private schools in British Columbia, Canada, that provided instruction to Grade 12 students were analyzed to explore the diversity that lies within the private school sector. The concepts that emerged from the analysis were grouped into five…

Uses experiences from Canadian and American education to discuss school wars that can occur when both professionals and community members increase their attention to schools, noting how structures designed to bring them together actually function in schools. The paper examines the construction of a crisis in education and the effects of…

Examined the influence on schools and classrooms of advisory school councils. Interviews with students, teachers, administrators, and parents from five schools indicated that councils had weak positive to negative influences on schools and classrooms. More influential councils had facilitative principals and used a collaborative team approach.…