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Warshaw, Jarrett B.; Ciarimboli, Erin B. – Teachers College Record, 2020
Background: Popular commentary portrays private liberal arts colleges (LACs) as ensnared within a "death spiral" due to unprecedented enrollment and financial challenges. But, in contrast to ominous predictions, recent evidence suggests strong levels of innovative activity and resilience in the sector, as reflected in the creation and…
Descriptors: Educational Change, College Faculty, Governance, Participative Decision Making
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Higham, Rupert; Booth, Tony – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2018
To what extent can heads use an inclusive values-led approach to school development in the face of pressures from Ofsted and their Local Authority to focus almost exclusively on attainment outcomes? We explore leadership of school improvement in a qualitative study of 10 head teachers in the English county of "Preshire," who worked with…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Values, Qualitative Research, Leadership Effectiveness
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Jones, Sandra; Harvey, Marina – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2017
The higher education sector operates in an increasingly complex global environment that is placing it under considerable stress and resulting in widespread change to the operating context and leadership of higher education institutions. The outcome has been the increased likelihood of conflict between academics and senior leaders, presaging the…
Descriptors: Models, Higher Education, Leadership Styles, Change Strategies
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Twal, Nader – Learning Professional, 2018
The educational landscape around standards, assessment, professional development, and funding is changing at a rapid pace. This article asks how can education institutions--and educators--respond with a balance of urgency and coherence? How can education institutions temper the need for risk-taking and innovation with the responsibility to deliver…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Educational Change, School Districts, Communities of Practice
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Lopes Cardozo, Mieke T. A.; Shah, Ritesh – Comparative Education, 2016
A critical and more nuanced understanding of the multifaceted relationship between projects of peacebuilding and educational provision is starting to develop. Drawing on an epistemological and ontological anchor of critical realism, and a methodology informed by the application of cultural political economy analysis and the strategic relational…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Peace, Politics of Education, Epistemology
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Phillips, William; Sweet, Charlie; Blythe, Hal – Journal of Faculty Development, 2011
Among the many challenges of professional (faculty, administration, and staff) development is the implementation of shared governance. We propose a model involving professional learning communities that we are experimenting with in our College of Education. This new model provides faculty with decision-making power, a sense of cooperation and…
Descriptors: Governance, Educational Change, Participative Decision Making, Transformational Leadership
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Booker, Roger – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2013
At a time of great change for educational psychology services in England, this paper reviews current theories of leadership and proposes how an integration of key aspects of these can be applied to support a self review of leadership practice, both by individual leaders and by services. The message from current theory is that in the midst of…
Descriptors: Psychological Services, Educational Psychology, Educational Theories, Change Strategies
Sturgis, Chris – International Association for K-12 Online Learning, 2015
Competency education, an educator-led reform, is taking root in schools and districts across the country. In some states, state leadership has cleared the path with policies to advance competency education. This paper seeks to map out the terrain of the district implementation strategies being used to convert traditional systems into personalized,…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Educational Change, Competence, School Districts
Aarons, Dakarai I. – Education Week, 2009
This article features American educator administrator Arne Duncan, whose seven-year tenure as the head of the 408,000-student Chicago school district has been marked by innovations to improve the quality of teachers and principals and a focus on basic reading and math skills. His low-key, collaborative style was a key to his success in Chicago,…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Tenure, Recognition (Achievement), Profiles
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Cardoso, Sonia; dos Santos, Sergio Machado – Tertiary Education and Management, 2011
This article aims at analysing and discussing student participation in Portuguese higher education institutions and, specifically, in university governance. In a first moment, it describes this participation under both the previous (1988-2007) and the new legal frameworks (since 2007). A discussion of the changes introduced by this last framework…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Governance, Educational Quality, Quality Assurance
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Miles, Jennifer – Community College Enterprise, 2010
Student governance is one way for students to become involved on college campuses. Student government allows participants to represent the needs of the student body and to voice their concerns to college administrators. In a qualitative study, five presidents of community college student government associations were interviewed. The student…
Descriptors: Student Government, Student Leadership, Presidents, Interviews
Roberts, Jennifer M. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
The revised Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEA, 2004) has offered a change of practice regarding the identification of students with a learning disability. Under IDEA (2004) educators are encouraged to use Response to Intervention (RTI) as a method to determine eligibility for special education services. In an RTI…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Responsibility, Response to Intervention, Federal Legislation
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Smit, Marius H.; Oosthuizen, Izak J. – South African Journal of Education, 2011
There is an inextricable link between democracy, education and the law. After 15 years of constitutional democracy, the alarming percentage of dysfunctional schools raises questions about the efficacy of the system of local school governance. We report on the findings of quantitative and qualitative research on the democratisation of schools and…
Descriptors: Governance, Democracy, Educational Improvement, Participative Decision Making
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Nazir, Muhammad – Educational Review, 2010
This paper explores the potential for democratic change in educational practice in Pakistan. Using focus group discussions in urban and rural areas of Sindh and Balochistan, it builds up a picture of educational practices from policy-making to implementation level and identifies the barriers to democratic approaches in education. It suggests that…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Democracy, Focus Groups, Educational Practices
Montgomery, Ken; Darling-Hammond, Linda; Campbell, Carol – Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education, 2011
In this multi-method case study, the authors explore the success of school reform in Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS), whose school reform combines a portfolio strategy and a managed instruction approach. Portfolio strategy is a term used to describe an approach that decentralizes resources and decision-making to school sites--increasingly in…
Descriptors: Portfolios (Background Materials), School Restructuring, Educational Change, Accountability
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