Sweeping decentralization of educational decision-making authority lessons from England and New Zealand

Phi Delta Kappan

Volumn 78, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 626-631

  Williams, Richard C ^a   Harold, Barbara ^b   Robertson, Jan ^c   Southworth, Geoff ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

^c Educational Leadership Centre   (New Zealand)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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References (15)

1. Paul T. Hill and Josephine Bonan, Decentralization and Accountability in Public Education (Santa Monica, Calif.: RAND Corporation, 1991), p. 9.
2. David Osbourne and Ted Gaebler, Reinventing Government: How the Entrepreneurial Spirit Is Transforming the Public Sector (New York: Addison-Wesley, 1992).
3. Priscilla Wohlstetter and Allan Odden, "Rethinking School-Based Management Policy and Research," Educational Administration Quarterly, November 1992, pp. 529-49.
4. G. Alfred Hess, Jr., School Restructuring, Chicago Style (Newbury Park, III.: Corwin, 1991), chap. 9;
5. and Richard F. Elmore, "Models of Restructuring Schools," paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, 1988.
6. For a source of various perspectives on decentralization, see Paul T. Hill, Reinventing Public Education (Seattle: Institute for Education and Training and the Institute for Public Policy and Management, University of Washington, report #DRU-690IET/LE/GGF, April 1994).
7. David Lange, Tomorrow's Schools (Wellington, New Zealand: Government Printer, 1988).
8. Eric Bolton, "Imaginary Gardens with Real Toads," in Clyde Chitty and Brian Simons, eds., Education Answers Back (London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1993), p. 3.
9. Education Answers Back Ibid., p. 5.
10. Robin McConnell and Richard Jefferies, "Report No. 4: Monitoring Today's Schools Research Project," in David Mitchell, ed., The First Year: Tomorrow's Schools as Perceived by Members of the Boards of Trustees (Hamilton, New Zealand: University of Waikato, 1991).
11. Cathy Wylie, "Volunteers and Conscripts in the Paper War," Public Sector, vol. 13, no. 4, 1990, pp. 14-15.
12. Bolton, p. 8.
13. Meredydd Hughes, "Leadership in Professionally Staffed Organisations," in idem et al., eds., Managing Education: The System and the Institution (London: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1985), pp. 262-90.
14. Geoff Southworth, "Primary School Headship: An Analysis Derived from an Ethnographic Case Study of One Headteacher's Work" (Doctoral dissertation, University of East Anglia, England, 1993), p. 317.
15. Jan M. Robertson, "Developing Educational Leadership" (Master's thesis, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand, 1991), p. 142.