Charter schools are immersed in two accountability processes: they are accountable to public entities, and they are accountable to the parents, students, and teachers who have chosen the schools and who may exit them if dissatisfied. This study focuses on bureaucratic accountability and examines the regulatory styles of active statewide charter school authorizers in Arizona, Massachusetts, and …
Using weick's nation of environmental enactment as a sensitizing concept, this study explores how principals enact and structure the internal and external environment of the school. By examining what in the environment captures the attention of principals and why an incipient theory of the environmental attention-structure is offered. The critical-incident technique, a grounded approach to theo…
This study opens with a discussion on the health status of school-aged youth in the United States. Then in describes how student health problems and learning intersect and how health care in public schools is provided both nationally and in a particular prekindergarten through eighth grade tile 1 public school district in the southwestern United States. syur.
Teacher involvement strategies have become an important part of educatioanl reform. Work group enhancement, although less used than individual approaches, is gaining attention in reform efforts and research investigations. Hackman and oldham's model on work group effectiveness provides a useful conceptual framework for understanding the nature of interdisciplinary teacher teams. This article r…
Cohorts are an innovation being employed in many aducational leadership programs. To determine faculty perceptions of the advantages and liabilities of this approach, including the potential of cohorts to develop quality school leaders, a large-scale survey od educational leadership program faculty was conducted. The perceptions of both cohort users and nonusers were captured, revealing sharp c…
The success many Asian countries have experienced in expanding access to and quality of basic education over the past three decades has been due largely to a declining enrollment rate, a booming economy, and national development strategies that favored education. However, new pressures created by urgent needs in health, environment, and population combined with an economic slump are fueling a r…