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A State by State Snapshot of School-Based Management Practices.
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Herman, Janice L.; Herman, Jerry J. – International Journal of Educational Reform, 1993
A 1992 survey of state education departments revealed the extent and nature of each state's school-based management (SBM) implementation. Fully 44 states reported some SBM presence and confirmed the existing knowledge base of activity in budget, curriculum, personnel, group process, and policy. There is state and national consensus for a gradual…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Program Implementation, School Based Management, School Restructuring
A Study of School-Based Management in Selected Southern States.
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Herman, Jerry J.; And Others – International Journal of Educational Reform, 1995
Focuses on a model of school-based management (SBM) and on generalities that can be drawn from recent research on SBM in several southern states. A case study of SBM in Kentucky, where the Kentucky Education Reform Act mandated SBM, illustrates issues in its implementation. (SLD)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational Change, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
Has Teachers' Participation in Decision Making Increased in China? Local Responses to the Implementation of Education Decentralization in Guangdong Province
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Wong, Jocelyn L. N. – International Journal of Educational Reform, 2006
For teachers engaged in the process of policy change, the way that they interpret policy and translate it into their daily practices will influence the implementation and the effects of a policy shift. Thus, it is important and necessary to examine educational decentralization policies from the local perspective, for the ways in which teachers…
Descriptors: Urban Areas, Educational Change, Administrative Organization, Foreign Countries
Reconceptualizing Restructuring for School Effectiveness and School Improvement.
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Dimmock, Clive – International Journal of Educational Reform, 1995
Discusses the nature of school restructuring in Australia and provides a justification for restructuring predicated on improving teaching and learning. Provides various restructuring frameworks, recognizes the need to clarify qualifying conditions, and addresses ways to overcome implementation problems. Ambiguity and ambivalence over…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Improvement, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education