The article describes an approach to centralization of classes in a rural Pennsylvania school system with numerous small school buildings. The reasons for development of a kindergarten center are described as are the positive and negative aspects of the kindergarten center. (Author)

The author criticizes as inadequate the study of educational organizations based on theories that do not analyze schools themselves and proposes the development of organizational models of schools. The argument builds on Kenneth Boulding's typology of knowledge, which offers neutral middle ground in the debate between phenomenological and…

Research in organizational socialization is typically more concerned with settings where recruits are treated more harshly than with settings where they are treated well. It is argued that in settings where they are treated well recruits are allowed to import skills, knowledge and values. The process is described. (Author/MLW)

Vague goals, unmanaged technology, minimal accountability, and little contact among staff members are characteristics that many schools share with other loosely coupled organizations. Effective schools do not share these characteristics. Some strategies for eliminating these traits are suggested. (PGD)

Examined are history, instructional methodologies, organizational patterns, and current research projects and objectives. (JH)

Examines early childhood education in the Netherlands: its history, general conceptions of child upbringing and developmental psychology, organizational patterns, main research projects, and goals. (JH)

Extensive interviews with school personnel of alternative programs reveal that it is in the process of defining their essence with regard to decision-making, admissions, policies, responsibility, freedom, calendars, and programs vs. school identity that planning problems arise. (A related document is EA 507 273.) (Author/MLF)

This book is designed to inform the educational community about the empirical foundations of productive high schools. Part 1 focuses on the core technology (learning and teaching), the organizational systems in which the core function are nested (the ecology of the institution), and the institutional linkages between the school and its…

Among the papers read in the conference on education of the Second Pan-American Scientific Congress, held in Washington December 27, 1915, to January 8, 1916, two contain much of interest and value to those who are responsible for the organization of secondary schools: (1) The Changes Needed in American Secondary Education (Charles W. Eliot), plus…

In light of the accountability movement, school principals must make a concerted effort to reexamine their roles and relationships to the central office. They must seek and accept more control of the school's destiny. (Author/WM)

Speaks to the need to develop frameworks of analysis for those who are considering adopting a two-tier system of education governance to employ in their studies of the operation of actual two-tiered systems. The authors examine both formal and nonformal structural factors of the two-tiered Metropolitan Toronto School System and use the Detroit…

Article explores the question of local school control and whether or not it has ever existed in the American public school system. (GB)

This article discusses one school's experiences in planning, implementing, and dealing with the changes resulting from a modular flexible scheduling system. (Editor)

Providing humane high school environment requires some philosophical and psychological foundations. Fundamental is the belief in circumstances that permit persons to grow and change at their own pace, but under sensitive and rational guidance. (Editor)

Results of this study cast some doubt on the move to the middle school organization if the goal for such a change is to improve student attitudes toward school. (Author)