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The Power of Role Design: Balancing the Principals Financial Responsibility with the Implications of Stress
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Lindberg, Erik – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2012
The Anglo-Saxon countries have implemented Management by Objectives (MBO) complemented with school-based management (SBM) fairly rapidly. Although these countries are considered something of a benchmark of stability, research on principals reveals that they experience high levels of stress and that this is associated with poorer job performance.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Job Performance, School Based Management
Autonomy and School Improvement: What Do We Know and Where Do We Go from Here?
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Honig, Meredith I.; Rainey, Lydia R. – Educational Policy, 2012
New "autonomy initiatives" aim to increase schools' decision-making authority as a strategy to leverage school improvement. These policies build on lessons of previous reforms such as site-based management in ways that bode well for their success. However, how are these policies actually faring in implementation? The authors addressed that…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Institutional Autonomy, Decision Making
Site-Based Management in Secondary Schools.
Meriwether, Charlene O. – NASSP Practitioner, 1996
Site-based management (SBM) gives teachers, principals, and communities a method for directly affecting and improving their schools. This newsletter describes some of the advantages of SBM, which can result in greater accountability for student learning and an increased opportunity for parents, teachers, students, and business. The greatest…
Descriptors: Decentralization, Governance, Intermediate Grades, Middle Schools
Local School-Based Management in the District of Columbia Public Schools: First Impressions of Pilot Sites.
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Stevenson, Zollie, Jr. – 1990
Outcomes of the local school-based management (LSBM) plan, implemented by the District of Columbia public schools in 1989, are presented in this report. The 17 participating sites included 2 senior, 3 junior, 1 extended elementary, 9 elementary, and 2 special education schools. Data gathered from structured interviews with 12 of the participating…
Descriptors: Decentralization, Elementary Secondary Education, Participative Decision Making, Principals
A Practical Guide to Effective Site-Based Management.
Reynolds, Larry J. – 1993
Although site-based management is very popular, it is not always well understood or implemented. Seeking a middle ground between leadership theory and practice, this practical guidebook provides a systemwide approach to site-based management as a school improvement strategy; integrates a student-oriented, strategic-planning process; identifies 9…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Central Office Administrators, Change Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education
Primary School, School-Based Decision Making, Family Resource/Youth Services Centers. First Year Reports to the Prichard Committee.
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Raths, James; And Others – 1992
These three reports by national consultants assess first year progress in implementing state mandated educational reforms in Kentucky. First, "The Status of Primary School Reform in Kentucky and Its Implications," by James Rath, Lilian Katz, and John Fanning, reports on site visits to 14 public schools to assess progress in implementing…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Community Attitudes, Educational Assessment, Educational Change