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- Title
Authority and School Improvement: An Essay on "Little King" Leadership.
- Authors
Mann, Dale
- Abstract
The article presents information on school management and organisation. Authority relations in public schooling are up for grabs. In pursuit of reform, U.S. state legislators have flexed their muscles reminding everyone of the disappearance of the U.S. federal government, the putative inadequacy of school districts, and the unpalatability of mandates from anybody. Teachers are moving fast to expand the base created by collective bargaining and augmented by the implementation studies that have been read to make teachers the sine qua non of reform. Parents are out of the game, nobody likes administrators, and hardly anybody respects school boards. The legitimate basis of educational authority depends on how certainly any imposed act benefits children. people cannot say for sure that all children will be unequivocally better if they have foreign language instruction or more vitamin C. People encourage but do not require those things. Learning Cantonese is optional and so is the salad bar. At the other extreme, schools go to great lengths trying to guarantee that all children can read and that no child is allowed in school without inoculations against communicable diseases.
- Subjects
SCHOOL administration; EDUCATION; FEDERAL legislation; FEDERAL government; SCHOOL districts; COMMUNICABLE diseases
- Publication
Teachers College Record, 1986, Vol 88, Issue 1, p41
- ISSN
0161-4681
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/016146818608800101