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School Bureaucracy: More Tales From the Trenches

Posted on November 12, 2011 by schooldog

Summary: A simple tale of a credit retrieval plan provides a thematic setting for structure versus flexibility in school decision making. Kids fail classes mostly because they simply do not do the work, and thereby reveal the whole panoply of … Continue reading →

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School Bureaucracy: Hierarchy vs. Collegiality

Posted on November 4, 2011 by schooldog

Summary: Further thoughts on hierarchical versus collegial styles in school administration. Having had time to reflect on my post of 10/10/11, School Bureaucracy: A Comparison of Superintendent Styles, a couple more remarks occur to me. Briefly, in an article in … Continue reading →

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School Bureaucracy and Bob Marley: Redemption Song

Posted on October 26, 2011 by schooldog

I ride to work this morning. I think about bureaucratic rigidities, this straight jacketing of human responses, the numerous menial indignities and disrespect integral to daily life in schools, not the insults of person to person, but the anonymous slings … Continue reading →

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School Bureaucracy: A Comparison of Superintendent Styles

Posted on October 10, 2011 by schooldog

I recommend to you an article in the recent June Atlantic magazine written by Joel Klein, former Chancellor of the New York City Public Schools, about his efforts to reform the school system (“Scenes From the Class Struggle”). Mr. Klein … Continue reading →

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