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Download full textMcGrew, Jean B.; Hafeman, Donald A. – 1974
In response both to a growing national grumbling about the need for educational accountability and to a felt need to better define and focus on district priorities, the Madison Public Schools adopted a mangement by objectives (MBO) program in 1970. It is on the basis of three years' experience with this program that this book has been written. The…
Descriptors: Accountability, Case Studies, Educational Administration, Educational Change
Baron, Bernard – 1978
The various elements of the management approach to tertiary education (broadly, all institutions of further and higher education maintained by local authorities) are identified, with the principal focus on the general approach known as "Management by Objectives" (MBO). The arguments for and against its use and possible hazards following…
Descriptors: Accountability, Bibliographies, Educational Administration, Educational Objectives
Okumbe, J. A. – 1998
This book provides the reader with principal theories and practices of management in educational organizations. It attempts to widen both the breadth and depth of the body of knowledge in this area of specialization. The work provides useful reference material for students and scholars at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels in universities…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Decision Making, Educational Administration, Elementary Secondary Education
Gephart, William J., Ed. – 1975
Six papers from a Phi Delta Kappa symposium on educational accountability begin with an examination of accountability both as a goal and a process for achieving a goal, particularly from the state education agency perspective. The second paper, prepared from the vantage point of the teacher, asks questions about the development of accountability…
Descriptors: Accountability, Conferences, Educational Administration, Educational Assessment
Grossbard, Stephen I. – 1975
The planning, programming, budgeting system (PPBS) is an instrument to help policy-makers assign priorities and allocate resources. It does not seek to computerize what is essentially a political process, nor is it intended that the statisticians and cost accountants take over functions that properly belong to the political decision-maker. PPBS is…
Descriptors: Accountability, Budgeting, Cost Effectiveness, Decision Making
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris (France). – 2001
Throughout Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) member countries, school systems and individual schools are experimenting with new approaches to management that seek to run schools in ways that are right for the 21st century. Those who manage these schools must take responsibility for an arduous task due to the complexity…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Case Studies, Educational Administration
