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Hayman, John L., Jr. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 1974
Improvement in education clearly depends on improved management practice, which, in turn, depends on more effective information systems. The kind of management information systems needed in education in the seventies is referred to in the literature as a "fourth generation" system, one that focuses on the decision process and is developed in terms…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Educational Planning, Information Needs, Information Utilization

McGivney, Joseph H.; Haught, James M. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 1972
Explores the impact of the Central Office Staff (COS) on educational decisionmaking in a medium-sized city from an insider's'' perspective and sets forth several testable hypotheses. (Author)
Descriptors: Bureaucracy, Central Office Administrators, Decision Making, Educational Policy