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Systems of Ability Grouping and the Stratification of Achievement in Elementary Schools
Two explanations for the effect of ability groups on student achievement are discussed. One stresses the importance of peer groups, the other differential instruction. Little evidence was found that achievement differentials in elementary school grouping systems arise from either peer influence or from differential instruction. (Author/IS)
The Status Organizing Work of Schools
Discusses the work of school personnel and how it contributes to the organization and distribution of social status. Research on schools as people-processing organizations which describe how individuals are sorted into standardized educational classifications such as age grade status is reviewed. (AM)
Shamanistic rituals in effective schools
Review: Making Sense of Organizational Symbolism; Organizational Symbolism (Monographs in Organizational Behavior and Industrial Relations, Vol. 1).
Learning, Teaching, and Educational Administration: Toward a Research Agenda
Educational administration research is frequently criticized for overlooking issues of learning and teaching in schools. This special issue features four articles suggesting steps to establish a larger research agenda on learning, teaching, and educational administration. Topics include common schooling problems, school-based management, instructional leadership reform, and the educational policy-instruction relationship. (26 references) (MLH)
Research on Learning and Teaching in K-12 Schools: Implications for the Field of Educational Administration
Briefly describes current research on learning and teaching and discusses its implications for the field of educational administration. In the United States, an important transition is now occurring as instructional psychologists increasingly turn away from behaviorist models that dominated educational thinking for three decades to develop new models derived from cognitive psychology. Educational administration programs… Continue reading Research on Learning and Teaching in K-12 Schools: Implications for the Field of Educational Administration
The Ecology of School Improvement: Notes on the School Improvement Industry in the United States
Relation between income inequality and mortality in Canada and the US: cross sectional assessment using census data and vital statistics
Organizational Efficiency and Egalitarian Democracy in an Intentional Communal Society: The Kibbutz
Kibbutzim differ from one another in democratic and egalitarian practice and in equality itself. We explore hypotheses in 49 kibbutzim that attempt to explain these differences by the opposing effects of a technological imperative that implies a rational striving for economic efficiency and an ideological imperative that implies a commitment by members to traditional kibbutz… Continue reading Organizational Efficiency and Egalitarian Democracy in an Intentional Communal Society: The Kibbutz