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Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, 2010
As the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation chronicled in its last year's Fordham Sponsorship Accountability Report, "Seeking Quality in the Face of Adversity", the 2008-09 school year was a brutal one during which schools, and their peers, faced many existential threats. The 2009-10 school year was Fordham's fifth year as a charter school…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Accountability, Leadership, Academic Achievement
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Cervantes, Robert A. – Education and Urban Society, 1984
By 1985, California will have become the first Third World State in the continental United States; there is a critical need for changes in the pervasive ethnocentric pedagogy to make schools more responsive to the multicultural reality of student populations. (CMG)
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Educational Change, Educational Philosophy, Educational Quality
Bottani, Norberto – 2000
This paper analyzes changes in decision-making in France, Italy, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom and tries to identify trends in these countries' reforms. In general, the reforms initiated by these five countries redesigned the loci of decision-making between the government levels, modified the modes of decision at these levels, and…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Decision Making, Democratic Values, Educational Administration