Community empowerment? School autonomy, school boards and depoliticising governance

Theories in Support of Teacher and Principal Empowerment as Proposed by the Freedom School Model of School Governance

[School nutrition and autonomy - challenges and opportunities].

This study seeks to emphasize school food as an important policy to promote student autonomy by means of food and nutrition education included in the curriculum, integrated with different actors and based on the standpoint of citizenship. It seeks to return to fundamental concepts in the context of school food reflecting on them through theoretical assumptions to identify possible strategies to...

Nicaragua’s School Autonomy Reform: Fact or Fiction?

This study reviews Nicaragua's school autonomy reform -whether or not the public schools that joined the reform really exercise greater autonomy over their own management and operations than traditional public schools, and whether or not the local stakeholders in the so-called autonomous schools perceive an increase in their influence over school decisions. De jure autonomy, that is, whether a ...

School Consolidation and Community Development

The linkages between schools and community are seldom discussed in the research on school consolidation. Most of the focus of this body of literature is on the effects of school consolidation on efficiency and equity. In this essay I discuss the importance of school-community relationships and the critical role schools can play in community development. School consolidation can have several neg...

School Structure , School Autonomy and the Tail Stephen Machin and Olmo Silva

In this paper, we survey the UK-based literature on school structures and school autonomy to identify settings in which alternative and more autonomous school arrangements can improve the educational attainments of pupils in the bottom tail of the achievement distribution. We also present new evidence on the effect of school academies on the age-16 GCSE attainment of students of different abili...