Small Is Beautiful: Innovation from the Inside Out.

Larson, Robert L.

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ERIC Number: EJ422817

Record Type: Journal

Publication Date: 1991

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Small Is Beautiful: Innovation from the Inside Out.

Larson, Robert L.

Phi Delta Kappan, v72 n7 p550-54 Mar 1991

Educators should encourage the "small is beautiful" approach to school improvement because it mobilizes a powerful "inside out" process instrumental to organizational effectiveness. As a study of two rural Vermont high schools shows, creative ways are needed to channel and maximize innovation without dampening the dynamics of marketplace effects. Includes 33 references. (MLH)

Descriptors: Change Strategies, Educational Innovation, Elementary Secondary Education, Free Enterprise System, Incentives, Leadership Responsibility, Organizational Effectiveness, Professional Autonomy, School Based Management, Small Schools, Teacher Motivation

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Vermont

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