Local management of schools : research and experience

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Local management of schools : research and experience

ed. by Gwen Wallace

(BERA dialogues, 6)

Multilingual Matters, c1992

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Bibliography: p. 168-175

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Schools are now 'in the market'. Formula funding, largely based on pupil numbers, is designed to make the popular school rich and the unpopular non-viable. Legislation for 'open access' in the 1988 Education Reform Act (ERA), means that efficient schools, with high standards, are expected to thrive and expand, as the inefficient close down for lack of pupils. Associated changes in educational policy require teachers to 'deliver' the National Curriculum, assess their pupils' progress at seven, eleven, fourteen and sixteen, and, depending on local authority policies for phasing in the changes, take over the management of their own budgets. It is this last aspect of government policy - budget delegation based on formula funding - which, although it inevitably embraces all the rest - is commonly known as Local Management of Schools (LMS). LMS is not an isolated policy change but part of a comprehensive range of legislation designed to change the way schools work. In spite of the rhetoric, LMS has a pivotal role in locking 'self-management' into the mechanisms designed for increased central control. Far from 'closing the loop' in a rational system of market competition and opportunity, tensions and paradoxes inherent in the system are devolved on to individuals and groups who experience them as stressful dilemmas and perversities.

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1. Gwen Wallace: Introduction: The Organisation and the Teacher 2. Mike Stewart: Local Management - The Kent Scheme 3. Margaret Maden: The Policy Implications of LMS 4. Robert McGovern: A View from the Front 5. Richard Bowe and Stephen Ball: 'Doing What Should Come Naturally': An Exploration of LMS in One Secondary School 6. Jane Broadbent, Richard Laughlin, David Shearn and Nigel Dandy: 'It's a Long Way from Teaching Susan to Read': Some Preliminary Observations of a Project Studying the Introduction of Local Management of Schools 7. Tim Lee: Finding Simple Answers to Complex Questions: Funding Special Needs under LMS 8. Rosalind Levacil: The LEA and its Schools: The Decentralised Organisation and the Internal Market 9. Ewart Keep: Schools in the Marketplace? - Some Problems with Private Sector Models 10. Marilyn Leask: School Development Plans: Their History and Their Potential 11. Rob McBride: INSET, Professional Development and the Local Management of Schools 12. Hugh Busher: Towards a Systematic Management of Professional Staff Development in Schools 13. Gwen Wallace: The Paradoxes in the Management of Education

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