Street-level bureaucracy revisited: Frontline district central-office administrators as boundary spanners in education policy implementation

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 357-383

  Honig, Meredith I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

District central office administration; Leadership; Policy implementation; School community partnerships; Street level bureaucracy

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846181304     PISSN: 01623737     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3102/01623737028004357     Document Type: Review

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