The Impact of School-Based Decision Making [microform] : A Case Study / Carol Plata Etheridge and Mary Lee Hall
- Bib ID:
- 5543983
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Etheridge, Carol Plata
- Online Version:
- https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED345361
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- Description:
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1992
- 21 p.
- Summary:
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As a last resort to catalyze change in its innercity schools, Memphis City School District (Tennessee) designated seven schools as school-based decision-making (SBDM) sites in April 1989. In the same month, Memphis State University researchers were appointed official observers/researchers of SBDM implementation. Not to be confused with school-based management, SBDM is a participatory process that shifts decision-making to the local school level and gives all affected parties a voice. This paper examines issues and processes related to a school administrative structure that replaces the traditional top-down bureaucratic management with a democratic strategy including urban parents as decision-makers. Ms. Apple's experiences during the first 3 years of the Memphis reform illustrate that personal and school changes can result when a low-income parent who lacks formal education and lives in public housing has opportunity and support, through district policy changes, to become a school level decision-maker. Ms. Apple's development from volunteer to leader to activist is described within this context as she struggles to become a viable decision-maker and accepted member of Urban Elementary School's political structure. (27 references) (MLH)
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- May also be available online. Address as at 14/8/18: https://eric.ed.gov/
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- Microfiche. [Washington D.C.]: ERIC Clearinghouse microfiches : positive.
- Subject:
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- Activism
- Administrative Organization
- Case Studies
- Democratic Values
- Educational Change
- Educational Policy
- Elementary Education
- Low Income Groups
- Parent Participation
- Participative Decision Making
- Politics of Education
- School Based Management
- School Councils
- Urban Schools
- Empowerment Memphis City Schools TN
- Other authors/contributors:
- Hall, Mary Lee, author
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- ERIC
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- Published
- Publication date:
- 1992
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