An evaluation of community school organization
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4254384 |
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| Authors | Roland M Peek (Oklahoma Department of Human Services), Samuel H Popper (Minnesota Department of Education), Wayne W Welch (University of Minnesota) |
| Year | 1972 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 38-42 |
| Publication date | 1972-02-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Theory Into Practice (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0040-5841 • E-ISSN: 1527-2532 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00405847209542367 |
| OpenAlex | W2154414932 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
A perennial problem in public school organization is the inadequacy of adoption-diffusion models. Of course, as the literature indicates, the problem is endemic to all large-scale bureaucracies, but for education, and especially for urban school systems, it is a major stumblingblock in the path to institutional self-revitalization. The late Professor Paul Mort of Columbia University estimated the time lag at 50 years between the generation of a substantive innovation in American education and its universal adoption by public school systems.1 Conditions have changed for the better since Mort's depressing estimate of the 50's, mostly because more sophisticated conceptualizations have evolved of school organization as a social system, but problems of adoption and diffusion continue to frustrate educational lead
Bureaucracy · Geography · Pedagogy · Political science · Public relations · Scale (ratio · School system · Social organization · Social science · Sociology · ICT Impact and Policies · ICT in Developing Communities · Law · Public Administration · Technology Adoption and User Behaviour
| Highly cited | No |
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