The five papers compiled in this report discuss several distinctive components of the National Development Center for School Management Training (NDC), particularly research and development work on school leadership, management development, and training. Titles and authors of the papers are as follows: (1) "The Role of a National Agency for…

Not all of America's public schools have benefited from recent efforts to improve education, because the problems of schools and of their communities are deep and complex. By 2000, when one of every three pupils in the public schools will be nonwhite, America's major cities could become an educational Third World. To avoid a deepening crisis,…

Based on inspections of 80 first schools for children either 5 to 8 years or 5 to 9 years of age, this survey reports data on school organization and staffing, and offers narrative descriptions of children's work. An introductory first chapter offers generalizations about features common to most first schools. The second chapter describes aspects…

This article describes a study that analyzes elementary and secondary teachers' and administrators' perceptions of the organizational climate of their school systems. (PD)

The American elementary school principal is subjected to pressures from parents, organizations, bureaucrats, the education publishing industry, and universities. The steady, continuous growth of child centered, informal education in Britain, compared to the cyclical changes of American elementary education, indicates that there are powerful…

The flexibility inherent in the multi-unit school organizational plan has been instrumental in making possible the placement of special education students in regular classrooms for a portion of their daily instructional program. This provides unusual opportunities for academic, emotional, and social growth heretofore unavailable to these students.…

Good management, in a soundly developed organizational structure, can shorten significantly the learning cycle that takes place in all organizational development. (Author)

Current knowledge about universities is such that approaches to their study should be both more frequently and more carefully made through organizational theory. While observers tend to agree about universities' general characteristics, important questions about their nature and viability are as yet unsettled. Michael Crozier's framework is…

The period of stress which colleges and universities currently face is analyzed in terms of environmental and organizational factors. (Editor)

Presented at the Annual Convention of the National Association of Secondary School Principals (53d, San Francisco, February 28 - March 5, 1969).

The belief that the similarities between business administration and public administration are more significant than the differences led in the 1950s to the development of schools teaching administration as a generic process. This paper reassesses eight tenets underlying the generic model for administrative education, drawn from the work of early…

Models of organizational structures developed through the study of commercial organizations are not necessarily applicable to educational organizations. Technical organizations such as factories act to regulate the flow of their processes and products and, thus, to buffer them from external forces. Institutional organizations such as schools or…

Despite the tendency of researchers to assume all schools share a common organizational form, analysis of thirteen elementary and secondary schools provides evidence that elementary schools exhibit characteristics of the rational bureaucracy, while high schools tend to be more loosely coupled. Over 600 classroom teachers and nonadministrative…