School Board Policies Research Articles

Teacher awareness program on child abuse: A randomized controlled trial

Teachers have a significant role in preventing, detecting and reporting child abuse and neglect. They are hindered in fulfilling this role by a serious lack of knowledge of the law. of school board policies, and of maltreatment. A comprehensive professional development workshop was developed and presented to elementary school teachers. The package was evaluated by means of a randomized controlled trial. The workshop proved to be effective in increasing and maintaining knowledge.

Better Leadership Through Effective Communication of Board Policies, Procedures

Administrators can avoid legal and personnel problems by en suring that staff, students, and parents clearly understand school board policies and procedures.

School Boards, the Community, and School Desegregation

Local boards of education, or school boards, empowered to assume fiscal and administrative responsibility for local school districts, are legal arms of the state. Whereas they vary in the manner in which they discharge their responsibilities, they generally appoint a school superintendent to implement policy and to manage local school districts. In areas regarding teacher and administrator hiring, curriculum and educational programs, extracurricular activities, school staffing practices, community involvement, and the like, school board policies have a profound effect on overall educational quality. Another area of board policy, one that perhaps has had a more visible influence on the quality of education in local schools while simultaneously stimulating community reaction, concerns school desegregation. Because of its importance to educational quality, school desegregation functions as the lens through which the responsiveness of school boards to community desires is examined. To address these issues, this article first presents a general description of school boards. This description is followed by a review of criticisms of school boards, as well as a brief analysis

Beyond Busing

This article is a general overview of desegregation. Discussion first centers on the weakening of desegregation by federal housing programs, school board policies and opportunistic politicians, and then proceeds to the relationship of desegregation and poverty. Emphasis is placed on the existence of inadequate schools as a product of economics rather than race. The author examines the arguments used against desegregation in which she brings to the surface both the truths and falsehoods contained within these arguments. She concludes with a critical look at the quality of research conducted on desegregation.

Revision, Bureaucracy, and School Reform: A Critique of Katz

Previous articleNext article No AccessRevision, Bureaucracy, and School Reform: A Critique of KatzJacob B. MichaelsenJacob B. Michaelsen Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Volume 85, Number 2Feb., 1977 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/443331 Views: 10Total views on this site Citations: 18Citations are reported from Crossref Journal History This article was published in The School Review (1893-1979), which is continued by the American Journal of Education (1979-present). Copyright 1977 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:William J. Reese, John L. Rury Introduction: An Evolving and Expanding Field of Study, (Jan 2008): 1–16.https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230610460_1John L. Rury The Curious Status of the History of Education: A Parallel Perspective, History of Education Quarterly 46, no.0404 (Feb 2017): 571–598.https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-5959.2006.00032.xWilliam Lowe Boyd, Robert L. Crowson, Tyll van Geel 8. Rational choice theory and the politics of education: promise and limitations, Journal of Education Policy 9, no.55 (Sep 1994): 127–145.https://doi.org/10.1080/0268093940090512Jaap Scheerens Basic School Effectiveness Research: Items for a Research Agenda 1, School Effectiveness and School Improvement 4, no.11 (Jan 1993): 17–36.https://doi.org/10.1080/0924345930040102William Lowe Boyd The Power of Paradigms: Reconceptualizing Educational Policy and Management, Educational Administration Quarterly 28, no.44 (Nov 1992): 504–528.https://doi.org/10.1177/0013161X92028004004Jeffrey A. Raffel, William Lowe Boyd, Vernon M. Briggs, Eugene E. Eubanks, Roberto Fernandez Policy Dilemmas in Urban Education: Addressing the Needs of Poor, At-Risk Children, Journal of Urban Affairs 14, no.3-43-4 (Dec 2016): 263–289.https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9906.1992.tb00290.xRobert L. Crowson Managerial Ethics in Educational Administration, Urban Education 23, no.44 (Aug 2016): 412–435.https://doi.org/10.1177/0042085989023004006Roger D. Rada A Public Choice Theory of School Board Member Behavior, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis 10, no.33 (Nov 2016): 225–236.https://doi.org/10.3102/01623737010003225William Lowe Boyd Balancing Public and Private Schools: The Australian Experience and American Implications, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis 9, no.33 (Jun 2016): 183–198.https://doi.org/10.3102/01623737009003183 William Lowe Boyd Rethinking Educational Policy and Management: Policital Science and Educational Administration in the 1980s, American Journal of Education 92, no.11 (Oct 2015): 1–29.https://doi.org/10.1086/443720Barry M. Franklin The Social Efficiency Movement Reconsidered: Curriculum Change in Minneapolis, 1917–1950, Curriculum Inquiry 12, no.11 (Dec 2014): 9–33.https://doi.org/10.1080/03626784.1982.11075825David K. Wiles The Logic of Y=f(X) in the Study of Educational Politics, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis 3, no.22 (Jun 2016): 67–73.https://doi.org/10.3102/01623737003002067William Lowe Boyd, Robert L. Crowson Chapter 7: The Changing Conception and Practice of Public School Administration, Review of Research in Education 9, no.11 (Jun 2016): 311–373.https://doi.org/10.3102/0091732X009001311 Jacob B. Michaelsen Assessing the Efficacy of Financial Reform in California, American Journal of Education 88, no.22 (Oct 2015): 145–178.https://doi.org/10.1086/443513William Lowe Boyd The Political Economy of Education in Metropolitan Areas: Dilemmas of Reform and Public Choice, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis 2, no.11 (Jun 2016): 53–60.https://doi.org/10.3102/01623737002001053WILLIAM LOWE BOYD The Politics of Curriculum Change and Stability, Educational Researcher 8, no.22 (Jul 2016): 12–18.https://doi.org/10.3102/0013189X008002012William Lowe Boyd The Changing Politics of Curriculum Policy-Making for American Schools, Review of Educational Research 48, no.44 (Jun 2016): 577–628.https://doi.org/10.3102/00346543048004577David H. Kamens Book Reviews: B owles, S amuel and G intis, H erbert.Schooling in Capitalist America: Educational Reform and the Contradictions of Economic Life . New York: Basic Books, 1976. 340 pp. $13.95., American Educational Research Journal 14, no.44 (Nov 2016): 499–510.https://doi.org/10.3102/00028312014004499

White flight from desegregation in mississippi

Since the Brown decision in 1954, the courts have searched for a strategy that will actually desegregate the schools. At first, school board policies were seen as the principal barrier to desegregation. After the Green' (1968) and Alexander* (1969) decisions, it became the immediate duty of many southern school boards to reassign their students and teachers in a manner designed to produce full desegregation. But when they implemented these orders, large numbers of white children (including twenty-five per cent of those enrolled in the thirty Mississippi districts directly under the Alexander order) abandoned the public schools rather than desegregate; the white exodus left many black children in schools just as segregated as they had been before Brown.