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Make or Buy? That's Really Not the Question
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Peurach, Donald J.; Glazer, Joshua L.; Lenhoff, Sarah Winchell – Phi Delta Kappan, 2012
Conventional thinking holds that districts and schools face a strategic decision between two fundamentally different alternatives: make or buy? The former refers to planning, designing, and enacting school-specific improvement initiatives. The latter refers to contracting with external providers of schoolwide improvement programs. However, there…
Descriptors: School Districts, Educational Improvement, Improvement Programs, Decision Making