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In the book, Joseph Murphy and Lynn G Beck provide a clear understanding of the organizational form, operating characteristics and outcomes of School-Based Management (SBM) in the United States. Following an examination of the definitions, premises and types of SBM, the authors consider its historical perspective and then examine evidence of SBM in the current education reform era. The book concludes with a look at the effects of and lessons learned from the implementation of SBM.
List of contents
Foreword - James W Guthrie
Introduction
School-Based Management (SBM)
Definitions and Assumptions
Unpacking a Reform Strategy
Context, Models and Domains
Forces Fueling the SBM Movement
SBM in Historical Perspective, 1900-1950
SBM in Historical Perspective
The Community Control Movement, 1965-1975
Examining Evidence from the Current Reform Era
Explaining Effects
About the author
Joseph F. Murphy is the Frank W. Mayborn Chair and associate dean at Peabody College of Education at Vanderbilt University. He has also been a faculty member at the University of Illinois and The Ohio State University, where he was the William Ray Flesher Professor of Education.
In the public schools, he has served as an administrator at the school, district, and state levels, including an appointment as the executive assistant to the chief deputy superintendent of public instruction in California. His most recent appointment was as the founding president of the Ohio Principals Leadership Academy. At the university level, he has served as department chair and associate dean.
He is past vice president of the American Educational Research Association and was the founding chair of the Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium (ISLLC). He is co-editor of the
AERA Handbook on Educational Administration (1999) and editor of the National Society for the Study of Education (NSSE) yearbook,
The Educational Leadership Challenge (2002).
His work is in the area of school improvement, with special emphasis on leadership and policy. He has authored or co-authored 18 books in this area and edited another 12. His most recent authored volumes include
Understanding and Assessing the Charter School Movement (2002),
Leadership for Literacy: Research-Based Practice, PreK-3 (2003),
Connecting Teacher Leadership and School Improvement (2005),
Preparing School Leaders: Defining a Research and Action Agenda (2006), and
Turning Around Failing Schools: Lessons From the Organizational Sciences.
Summary
In the book, Joseph Murphy and Lynn G Beck provide a clear understanding of the organizational form, operating characteristics and outcomes of School-Based Management (SBM) in the United States. Following an examination of the definitions, premises and types of SBM, the authors consider its historical perspective and then examine evidence of SBM in the current education reform era. The book concludes with a look at the effects of and lessons learned from the implementation of SBM.
