...Adam E. Nir Purpose Using a document analysis methodology, the study analyzes official policy documents produced by the centralized Israeli Ministry of Education and by the State Comptroller responsible for reviewing the Israeli government's policies and operations. Coordination is assessed using...

... against international disability law and identify opportunities for leaders to transform policy and practice for inclusive education. Design/methodology/approach This paper explores the development of the three sins in US special education law: (1) weaving throughout it a medical model of disability...

... on impact risks delegitimizing organizations and policy initiatives before they have time to adapt. Originality/value This research reported here is among the few studies that have explored the experiences and implications of NGOs that have attempted to assume operational control of underperforming...

... management has diversified the third sector. Now, additional charitable organizations, consultancies, contractors, employer and training concerns, social advocacy organizations, and an almost unlimited range of other types of organizations can offer schooling, and thus demand policy influence on how school...

...Elizabeth Leisy Stosich Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine how US school leaders and teachers make sense of multiple accountability policies, including the Common Core State Standards and teacher evaluation, and how this process relates to school priorities and classroom practice...

... Governance Policy Turnaround Portfolio district Low‐performing schools School districts throughout the country are facing mounting accountability pressures to improve student achievement and turn around their lowest performing schools. More and more schools are failing to make adequate yearly...

...Stephen Jacobson; Lauri Johnson; Sue Winton; Katina Pollock Purpose The aim of the paper is to argue that principal preparation programs should help candidates: recognize the political role of the school principal; develop political skills (including the ability to strategically appropriate policy...

... of the school that constitute its accountability system: © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 United States of America Schools Urban areas Leadership Educational administration Policy Accountability In current policy discourse across national contexts, the term “accountability...

...Lance D. Fusarelli This article examines the loosely coupled nature of the US educational system and explores recent systemic reform initiatives designed to improve education through more tightly coupled education policy and practice. The utility and limitations of loose coupling...

... to be problematic, because, it is argued, educational administration is best conceptualized as a public policy field rather than as an academic discipline. The implications of the public policy field conceptualization are explored and this discussion is used further to highlight positive and problematic features...

.... It is suggested that the school, in responding to major policy change, triggers specific organizational issues that in turn will arouse specific concerns on the part of the individual teacher. The implementation of major change is seen as the resolution of these issues and their related concerns. The framework...

...Reynold J.S. Macpherson This paper reports a policy research project intended to clarify the accountability processes and criteria that should be used to collect data, report and improve the quality of learning, teaching and leadership in Tasmania. Its outcomes informed the design of a new three...

... greater cognisance of the societal culture of Hong Kong, especially at the school level, the point of implementation of the reforms. Hong Kong Leadership Policy Redesign Schools As a vibrant and dynamic territory, Hong Kong has experienced continuous social, political and economic change...

...Brendan Nolan Explores the challenges faced by principals of one‐teacher schools in the New South Wales Department of School Education as they attempt to implement departmental policy changes during a time of unprecedented structural and organisational change. It examines the substantial...

... services was brought to the nation’s attention by the civil rights movement and President Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty[ 11 ]. Public pressure on elected officials and school administrators to change existing policies escalated as special needs children assigned to “dummy” classes became targets...

...Richard Wiesenthal; Bruce S. Cooper; Ruth Greenblatt; Sheldon Marcus Research on homework has typically focused on students’ beliefs, commitment to, and benefits of doing homework, but what about the influence of school policies and teachers’ beliefs and attitudes on the topic? Do schools...

...Gad Yair Shows how methodological choices are not theoretically neutral. Draws attention to ways in which different analyses of the same data may affect inferences about teachers’ policy coupling in school systems. In this case study of the Jerusalem school system the authors used three statistical...

... and considerations of developments in educational policy and administration throughout Australia, puts forward a proposal for a new set of agenda for research and professional advancement in the field. © MCB UP Limited 1995 Administration Education Policy It is with a sense of honour that I...

... and school organizations. © MCB UP Limited 1994 Decision making Education Interpersonal communications Organizational structure Policy As early as 1965 Bidwell[ 1 ] suggested that schools operated from a structural looseness in which teachers were granted autonomy to carry out...

... decision‐making groups in educational organizations. In order to explore group maturation in an educational setting, the policy board of a teacher centre consortium was studied over the course of a year. The research methods employed were ethnographic. The findings of the study showed that groups may...