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Jones, Michelle; Adams, Donnie; Joo, Mabel Tan Hwee; Muniandy, Vasu; Perera, Corinne Jaqueline; Harris, Alma – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2015
This article outlines the findings from a contemporary study of principals' leadership practices in Malaysia as part of the 7 System Leadership Study. Recent policy developments within Malaysia have increased principals' accountability and have underlined the importance of the role of the principals in transforming school performance and student…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Leadership Styles, Educational Administration
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Bethell, George; Zabulionis, Algirdas – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2012
Since the break up of the USSR, its former republics have seen the emergence and rapid expansion of an examinations industry that was, to all intents and purposes, unknown in Soviet times. New national assessment agencies have been established and been charged with, amongst other things, developing high-stakes exams to replace the diverse and…
Descriptors: High Stakes Tests, Cultural Differences, Foreign Countries, Educational Development
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Li, Qiang; Wu, Zhongyuan – International Education Studies, 2008
The paper mainly introduces the development of the educational administration agency in China, including the evolution of the educational administration agency, the Course of instituting legal system of education in China, the missions of the now Minister of Education, questions emerged in the development of the educational administration system,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Administration, Educational Development, Educational Change
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Kirwan, William E. – New Directions for Higher Education, 2007
As an enterprise that relies heavily on state funding, public higher education has long seen its support rise and fall with the boom-and-bust cycle of the economy. This chapter examines how the University System of Maryland repositioned itself as a state system able to thrive in an era of permanently diminished resources and perpetually escalating…
Descriptors: Operations Research, Organizational Theories, Organizational Change, Cost Effectiveness
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Newberg, Norman A.; De Lone, Richard H. – Education and Urban Society, 1981
Presents an overview of ways in which urban school bureaucracies constrain and can impede educational change, and attempts to illuminate some principles for working effectively for change. (APM)
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrative Organization, Administrator Role, Change Agents
Goens, George A.; Clover, Sharon I. R. – 1991
School organizations must become responsive and flexible to address rapidly changing social, economic, and demographic conditions. Reform attempts to date have not worked because they were layered on old structures and perceptions in a fragmented, piecemeal fashion. The fundamental transformation of education that is required demands a paradigm…
Descriptors: Accountability, Change Strategies, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Change