School-based management (S/B/M) pilot projects, funded by the Washington State Legislature, were established to develop and strengthen the S/B/M concept to produce meaningful change. Bringing together recent educational research and modern business management theory, S/B/M operates on the assumptions that individual schools are the largest…

Five models of organizational decision-making are described, and a case study of the rational model as seen in the budget process at Stanford University during the 1970s is presented. Several issues are addressed to help administrators who are interested in increasing the organization's rational decision-making. The five models are as follows: the…

The activities of the Open Learning Institute (OLI) of British Columbia from its inception in the late 1970s through mid-1983 are described. It is noted that the mandate of the OLI was to make available throughout the Canadian province courses and programs to students who were unable or unwilling to take advantage of other educational…

In this monograph, 13 authors offer their perspectives on the essential components of good schools. One interesting commonality is the tension expressed between institutional structure and personal values. Another issue that surfaces centers on the rising expectations of society for school achievement and the need for making learning more student…

This paper is a proposal for supervision focusing on a definition of and rationale for leadership roles that provide support, development, and implementation of the curriculum process together with a school organization structure accommodating these roles and purposes. First, general perspectives on the supervisory process are offered, followed by…

The guidelines presented in this publication focus on the education of gifted students within Catholic schools. Initial sections address the challenge of teaching gifted sudents and note the variety of gifts and talents. Goals are presented for educating gifted students in terms of three areas: (1) school (organizational options, directional…

This paper hypothesizes that both the structure and function of school systems are influenced by the following environmental factors: the institutional division of labor, the degree of homogeneity, the degree of stability, the degree of competition, and the amount and source of funding. Support for the hypotheses relies on open systems theory and…

Failure has frequently been the result of attempts to implement new educational technologies within a school organization that evolved in response to an older technology--the technology of the classroom, the blackboard, and the textbook. This failure may be due in part to specific causes in individual cases, but the pattern of failure suggests…

The trend away from closed teaching systems and toward open learning systems between 1965 and 1975 led to the introduction of a number of isolated innovations in Regis High School, a Catholic school in New York City. To provide a sense of coherence and direction to these changes, the faculty designed a comprehensive model for program development…

Compiled to help educational researchers and policy makers learn about current, relevant research efforts, this directory lists 350 research projects in 4 broad categories: educational finance and economics, educational law, educational organization, and educational politics. The entries in each broad area are alphabetized by the researcher's…

Higher education and research in Finland are discussed, with attention to Finnish society, the general structure of the Finnish education system, the higher education system, and scientific research. Specific concerns include the following: the social system, the demographic and economic structure, the comprehensive school, secondary education and…

The purpose of the Social Skills Curriculum Model is to improve the social climate level of parent participation, and academic achievement in inner city elementary schools The approach was developed at Martin Luther King School in New Haven, Connecticut. It is a preventative mental health model which focuses on the organization of the school. The…