Decentralized Decision-Making in Schools : The Theory and Evidence on School-Based Management.
Title:
Decentralized Decision-Making in Schools : The Theory and Evidence on School-Based Management.
Author:
Patrinos, Harry Anthony.
ISBN:
9780821379707
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (146 pages)
Series:
Directions in Development
Contents:
Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Overview -- What Is School-Based Management? -- Different Forms of School-Based Management -- School-Based Management Reforms around the World -- Can School-Based Management Work? -- Evaluating School-Based Management Initiatives -- Notes -- Chapter 1 What Is School-Based Management? -- School-Based Management Defined -- The Theory behind School-Based Management -- A Typology of School-Based Management -- Toward a Conceptual Framework for Analyzing School-Based Management -- How School-Based Management Can Increase Participation and Improve School Outcomes -- Notes -- Chapter 2 School-Based Management Reforms around the World -- General Assessment of the Literature on School-Based Management Programs around the World -- Initiatives in Latin America and the Caribbean -- Initiatives in Africa -- Initiatives in Asia -- Initiatives in the Middle East and North Africa -- Initiatives in Other Countries -- Notes -- Chapter 3 Evaluating School-Based Management Initiatives -- How to Implement Impact Evaluations -- How to Define the Intervention -- Elements of Impact and Identification -- Notes -- Chapter 4 Conclusions -- Types of School-Based Management -- Autonomy and School-Based Management -- The Evidence Base -- On the Design of School-Based Management Programs -- Caveats -- Unanswered Questions -- Appendix Some Evaluated School-Based Management Programs -- References -- Index -- Boxes -- 1.1 The Modest "Entivity" of School-Based Management -- 3.1 800 Models, 29 Evaluations, 8 Years to See Results -- Figures -- 1.1 Classification of School-Based Management Reforms Implemented in Various Economies -- 1.2 The Autonomy-Participation Nexus, Selected Countries -- 1.3 World Development Report 2004 Accountability Framework -- 1.4 School-Based Management Accountability Framework -- Tables.
1 School-Based Management in World Bank-Financed Education Projects -- 1.1 Various Functions for Which Responsibility Is Devolved to School Councils, Selected Countries -- 1.2 Selective List of Economies with School-Based Management Reforms -- 3.1 Inside the Black Box: How to Measure the Impact of School-Based Management Programs -- 3.2 Evaluations and Impacts: Evidence of School-Based Management from the Most Rigorous Studies, 1995 Onward.
Abstract:
An increasing number of developing countries are introducing School-Based Management (SBM) reforms aimed at empowering principals and teachers or at strengthening their professional motivation, thereby enhancing their sense of ownership of the school. Many of these reforms have also strengthened parental involvement in the schools, sometimes by means of school councils. SBM programs take many different forms in terms of who has the power to make decisions as well as the degree of ecision-making devolved to the school level. While some programs transfer authority only to school principals or teachers, others encourage or mandate parental and community participation, often in school committees. SBM has the potential to be a low cost way of making public spending on education more efficient by increasing the ountability of the agents involved and by empowering the clients to improve learning outcomes. By putting power in the hands of the end users of the service, SBM eventually produces better school management that is more cognizant of and responsive to the needs of the end users. This study reviews more than 20 country experiences with SBM in Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East and North Africa, as well as more developed countries such as the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Australia, and New Zealand. For each of these countries, a brief description of the SBM reform along with any evidence regarding its impact on a variety of indicators, from student test scores and dropout and repetition rates to parent and teacher perceptions of the reform??s benefits, is included.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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