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Oxley, Diana; Luers, Katie Whitney – Phi Delta Kappan, 2011
After providing technical assistance to the federal Smaller Learning Community Program grantees, the authors developed five lessons for successful programs: 1) A strong vision of improved instruction needs to drive high school reorganization; 2) A strong vision of improved instruction focuses on strengthening the instructional core; 3)…
Descriptors: School Organization, Small Schools, Change Strategies, Educational Change
Budde, Ray – Phi Delta Kappan, 1989
Education by charter is a model for restructuring school districts that promotes long-term, continuing educational improvement. Groups of teachers can request funds directly from the school board to implement specific instructional programs. The usual administrative layers between teachers and school boards are nonexistent. Charter life cycles and…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Improvement, Program Implementation
Levinson, Eliot – Phi Delta Kappan, 1990
A San Jose (California) school district's voucher experiment illustrates the difficulty of implementing organizational and structural innovation in an education system. Successful implementation of technology-mediated education requires identification of the critical problem, negotiated decision making, component integration, authority and role…
Descriptors: Decentralization, Educational Technology, Educational Vouchers, Elementary Secondary Education
Timar, Thomas B.; Kirp, David L. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1989
Neither hyperrationalist nor decentralist reform strategies will seriously improve educational quality. Successful reform strategies incorporate three dimensions: the authorized movement, regional or localist responses, and conversation, involving changes in school rhetoric. States must create a context for developing organizational competence at…
Descriptors: Decentralization, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Program Implementation
Tye, Kenneth A. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1992
Like most other reform endeavors, the current restructuring movement may fail. Advocates often oversimplify restructuring, overlooking serious underlying issues, such as the politics of organizational change, and ingrained U.S. schooling characteristics, including inclusiveness, deep structure, knowledge industry influences, growth of state power,…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Organizational Change, Policy Formation
Moss, James R. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1988
To implement numerous educational reforms within the constraints of skyrocketing enrollment and limited financial resources, Utah has given technology a key role. Technology has already changed teaching and learning via satellite delivery systems, writing labs, distance learning, instructional television, and other innovations. Policies and…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Technology, Elementary Secondary Education
Mehlinger, Howard D. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1986
Criticizes, for programmatic and political reasons, two main recommendations of the Holmes Group report: (1) to transfer professional studies from the undergraduate level to the graduate level and (2) to deny undergraduate students the opportunity to major in education. Gives reasons why the Holmes proposals would not work in Indiana. (IW)
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Imig, David G. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1986
Describes and praises ways in which the Holmes Group report, committed to redesigning the education of teachers, goes beyond prior movements to reform teacher education. Urges the active cooperation of universities, granting agencies, politicians, faculties, teachers, and others in supporting and accomplishing the required changes. (IW)
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Cooperative Programs, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education