In the book, Joseph Murphy and Lynn G Beck provide a clear understanding of the organizational form, operating characteristics and outcomes of School-Based Management (SBM) in the United States. Following an examination of the definitions, premises and types of SBM, the authors consider its historical perspective and then examine evidence of SBM in the current education reform era. The book concludes with a look at the effects of and lessons learned from the implementation of SBM.
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Mohrman and Wohlstetter have written the most important volume onschool-based management to date... a significant contribution tothe school reform literature. ?Joseph Murphy, professor and chair, department of educationalleadership, Vanderbilt...
This book raises some important questions such as: *How can school leaders create intelligent, thinking schools? *How can leadership and learning be linked together? *What are the characteristics of effective local education authorities and ...
One School at a Time: School Based Management : a Process for Change
The aim of this book is to bridge the widening gap between ongoing educational reforms and the lack of advances in knowledge, research and practice.
This document presents findings of the Assessment of School-Based Management Study, which identified the conditions in schools that promote high performance through school-based management (SBM). The study's conceptual framework was...
This study sets forth the RAND statistical analyses determining both the areas of significant progress in the New American Schools scale-up of implementation of its whole-school reform designs, and various other areas in need of additional ...
" This book presents the perspectives of noted experts, including Eric A. Hanushek, author of Making Schools Work, on creating incentives for improved school and student performance; Under Secretary of Education Marshall S. Smith on the ...
This book provides an overview of what SBM is and how it is implemented by summarizing some of the educational research in this area.
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