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Decentralization and accountability in public education
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Year: 1991 Publisher: Santa Monica, CA : RAND Corporation,

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Site-based management, one of the most widely discussed educational reforms, involves shifting the initiative in public education from school boards, superintendents, and central administrative offices to individual schools. The purpose of site-based management is to improve performance by making those closest to the delivery of services--teachers and principals--more independent and therefore more responsible for the results of their school's operations. This report distills the experience of school systems that have instituted site-based management. It is based on a study of five major urban and suburban school systems--Columbus, Ohio; Dade County, Florida; Edmonton, Alberta (Canada); Jefferson County (Louisville), Kentucky; and Prince William County, Virginia. It also draws on newspaper and scholarly accounts of site-based management in other communities, including Los Angeles, Chicago, New York City, Montgomery County (Maryland), Salt Lake City, Tampa, and Indianapolis. The authors draw these conclusions: (1) though site-based management focuses on individual schools, it is a reform of the entire school system; (2) site-based management will lead to real changes at the school level only if it is a school system's basic reform strategy, not just one among several reform projects; (3) site-managed schools are likely to evolve over time and to develop distinctive characters, goals, and operating styles; (4) a system of distinctive, site-managed schools requires a rethinking of accountability; and (5) the ultimate accountability mechanism for a system of distinctive, site-managed schools is parental choice.

FIDIC 4th: a practical legal guide: a commentary on the international construction contract
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ISBN: 0421453303 9780421453302 Year: 1991 Publisher: London: Sweet and Maxwell,

Collective responsibility : five decades of debate in theoretical and applied ethics
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ISBN: 0847676927 9780847676927 Year: 1991 Publisher: Savage (Md.): Rowman & Littlefield,

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A modern treatise on the law of criminal complicity
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ISBN: 0198252382 9780198252382 Year: 1991 Publisher: Oxford: Clarendon,


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The politics of curriculum and testing : the 1990 Yearbook of the Politics of Education Association
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ISBN: 1850009740 1850009759 Year: 1991 Volume: 1990 Publisher: London ; New York : Falmer Press,


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Education counts : an indicator system to monitor the nation's educational health
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ISBN: 0160358388 Year: 1991 Publisher: Washington, D.C. United States Depatment of Education

Liability and responsibility : essays in law and morals
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ISBN: 0521392160 0521088666 051152739X 9780521392167 9780511527395 9780521088664 Year: 1991 Publisher: Cambridge: Cambridge university press,

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This collection of contemporary essays by a group of well-known philosophers and legal theorists covers various topics in the philosophy of law, focusing on issues concerning liability in contract, tort and criminal law. The book is divided into four sections. The first provides a conceptual overview of the issues at stake in a philosophical discussion of liability and responsibility. The second, third and fourth sections present, in turn, more detailed explorations of the roles of notions of liability and responsibility in contracts, torts and punishment. The collection not only presents some of the most challenging work in legal philosophy, but it also demonstrates the interdisciplinary character of the field of philosophy of law, with contributors taking into account recent developments in economics, political science and rational choice theory. This thought-provoking volume will help to shed light on the underexplored ground that lies between law and morals.

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