School restructuring creates new expectations of administrators that transcend instructional leadership notions. Describes a 4-year research program exploring transformational forms of leadership in restructuring schools. Summarizes evidence about transformational leadership practices and behaviors, their effects on school and teacher variables,…

Solutions to educating special needs students are not found in exclusionary programs or curriculum categorizations but in the inclusion of all students and in providing the necessary support for them and their teachers. Meanwhile, special education "turf" issues must be resolved, and public apprehensions about mainstreaming as a cost-cutting…

To improve its alarming dropout rate, a southwestern Texas school district instituted the PRIDE Center, an alternative high school featuring self-paced curricula and flexible timetables for beginning and completing coursework. School social workers formed an ancillary coalition of community, business, and family forces to support prevention,…

According to Hornbeck, too little attention is paid to disabled youngsters in the nation's school restructuring discussions. To improve education for all children, "schools of distinction" must be created that shun standardized testing and rigid procedural requirements. Adequate staff development, increased funding, and teacher support…

The Foxfire Teacher Outreach Network has expanded teacher thinking and practice. Similarly, the principal must possess complementary attitudes and actions for a school to become a setting where change can occur, staff and students can flourish, and risk-taking is valued. This article explores the challenges facing administrators who create…

Transforming the school as an organization requires change in all its components. More important, transformation connects the technical components with the human elements to create fundamental changes in the ways people perceive, think, and behave. With the community, a Wisconsin school board adopted a school district value statement to be used as…

The future of school-based restructuring rests on five conditions: a site-specific vision of school greatness for all students; consequent plans shaped by school partners; a work culture that nurtures and expects development and success; staff empowerment and commitment to energize participants; and a quality control system that guides development…

Argues that schools, in trying to restructure to improve education, must tap the resources of all employees, including women as potential managers. Outlines ways that administrators and other influential groups might encourage women to step forward as managers and administrators. (HB)

Aims to stimulate interest in comparative education policy analysis by critiquing a paper by Stephen Lawton. Such comparative analysis is important in understanding neoliberal education reforms, but more work is needed to provide adequate categories for analysis. Lawton's categories, reformulated here as efficiency, managing and provider capture,…

Mild rejoinder to Gordon and Pearce in same issue argues that purpose of original "Why Restructure?" paper was rather modest. Seven overlapping categories do not constitute a theory but beginnings of one based on scientific-observation methods. Original categories may be applied to any social system for which reasonable boundaries and…

School restructuring is enhanced when strong staff development plays three primary roles: a vehicle for developing new knowledge, skills, and attitudes; an unfreezing influence that helps people consider large-scale restructuring; and a vision of the school as a learning community. Examples from three school districts are provided. (SM)

Although it is too early to tell whether recent Kentucky and Chicago developments are harbingers of the future, it is possible to evaluate the effectiveness of three types of reform proposals: pseudo-reform, incremental reform, and reform by restructuring. School restructuring is the most challenging approach. Includes 14 references. (MLH)

Using two case studies, this article amends Gouldner's findings about the effects of executive succession on bureaucracy in three ways. First, introducing an outside chief executive can lead to increased professionalism instead of increased bureaucracy. Also, superintendents cannot unilaterally determine the outcomes of change. Formal structural…

Focuses on the school restructuring movement and its relationship to school-linked social services. Explains former Surgeon General Koop's vision of collaborative services, which demands a new conception of service provider interrelationships, empowerment of individual service providers, and a different view of schools' relationship to communities…

Describes a Washington State school's efforts to forego factory-model education for a boldly restructured curriculum dependent on new technologies, such as computer networks, two-year classrooms, ongoing staff development and planning sessions, and an innovative onsite day-care program for staff and students. The school has succeeded in…