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Liontos, Lynn Balster – OSSC Bulletin, 1993
The purpose of this Bulletin is to clarify the intent of shared decision making (SDM) and explore its benefits, drawbacks, and implementation. It looks at how the principal's role changes in SDM, stresses the need for training, examines conditions that affect successful implementation of SDM, and offers ideas on how schools can concentrate on…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education, Participative Decision Making
Brown, David W., Ed.; Witte, Deborah, Ed. – 1998
A foreword and nine articles discuss issues on the role of institutions of higher education in the rebuilding of a public life involving citizens across the country. After the foreword by David Brown and Deborah Witte, the papers are: (1) "The Public and Its Colleges: Reflections on the History of American Higher Education (R. Claire Snyder),…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Citizenship, College Role, Higher Education
Issues in Restructuring Schools, 1992
The Chicago experience in school governance restructuring is examined in this newsletter. The introduction distinguishes between school-based management and shared decision-making and provides an overview of Chicago's restructured school governance. Next, findings of a study that examined school governance in 12 diverse Chicago elementary schools…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Foundation Programs, Governance, Participative Decision Making
Blick, Charles (Buzz) – Classroom Leadership Online, 1998
This paper explores the question of who should be involved in strategic decisions that affect a school, a cluster of schools, or an entire school district. It discusses the common problems that hamper effective participation: such as workgroups that are too large or too small; selecting the same roster of persons to serve as team members; choosing…
Descriptors: Cooperative Planning, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education, Parent Participation
Levin, Henry M. – Policy Bulletin, 1989
This report advocates the implementation of accelerated schools as a new strategy for at-risk students by focusing on the success of the model Accelerated Schools Program (ASP) at Stanford University. Under this program, conventional schools with large at-risk populations can be transformed into accelerated schools. Designed to accelerate at-risk…
Descriptors: Acceleration (Education), Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Change, Elementary Education
Cowan, D'Ette; Capers, Melissa – Issues...about Change, 2000
Managing and leading educational change entails a great degree of complexity and uncertainty and remains a pressing challenge for administrators. This work documents lessons learned from a national study on the concept and development of the Creating Communities of Continuous Inquiry and Improvement project of the Southwest Educational Development…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Cooperation, Cooperative Learning, Educational Change
Boone, Edgar J.; Vaughan, George B. – Leadership Abstracts, 1993
The Academy for Community College Leadership Advancement, Innovation, and Modeling (ACCLAIM) at North Carolina State University is working with state community college systems in Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia to develop and implement a process that positions the community college to play a major role in resolving community…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Community Leaders, Cooperative Planning, Environmental Scanning
Focus in Change, 1991
Collaborations between schools and parents, and schools and other institutions, seek to improve or expand available resources. This issue of "Focus in Change" focuses on two elementary schools with different models of collaboration in place. At Columbia Park Elementary School (Maryland) parents have been involved in site-based management teams…
Descriptors: After School Programs, College School Cooperation, Educational Environment, Effective Schools Research
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World Education Reports, 1995
This issue focuses on several efforts in maternal and child health education and environmental sanitation throughout the world in which bridges between technical content and participatory education have been built successfully. The following articles are included: "Editorial" (David Kahler, Bonnie Mullinix); "Women's Health…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Annotated Bibliographies