This article presents a case study of successful curricular and instructional innovation in Thailand. The innovation involved a curricular program, Integrated Pest Management (IPM). This student-centered curriculum models many of the features highlighted in Thailand's educational reform such as the student-centered learning approach, curriculum…

Accountability and assessment are critical components to the success of schools today. As leaders of school districts, superintendents in Texas and across the nation are faced daily with meeting this challenge. While doing so, they must remember that their priority commitment is not to testing programs, but to helping children achieve.…

Describes school administrator preparation standards, especially those related to planning, developed by the Interstate School Leadership Licensure Consortium, a joint effort of the Council of Chief State School Officers and the National Policy Board for Educational Administration. Includes overview of planning models and analysis of knowledge…

Explores the perceived complexity and urgency defined by school principals for planning processes and plans for policy issues that form the Israeli educational agenda. Advances proposition that the higher the urgency attributed to a specific issue, the lower the probability that educators will adequately address its complexity and create plans…

Deals with four major skill areas: (1) the analytics of categorization, (2) the analytics of priority assessment, (3) the analytics of time and transition, and (4) the analytics of decision strategy. (Author)

In administrative inquiry, the scientific tradition is utilized less frequently than the humanistic tradition. Such imbalance in perspectives may be a cause of the acknowledged poverty of the knowledge base. Departments of educational administration should encourage the existence of proponents of both perspectives within their ranks. (Author/WM)

The Skyline Wide Educational Plan (SWEP) presented is one example of how an urban school district can approach longrange planning using technological forecasting methods. The major project goal of SWEP is to ascertain the need for and the feasibility of a comprehensive secondary educational system (facilities and programs) to serve the Dallas-Fort…

Briefly reviews the theoretical perspectives that underlie current planning efforts and their concomitant decision criteria, and points out the signs indicating that both theory and values will require considerable rethinking of both the what and the how of planning. (Author/IRT)

Outlines money management ideas for the community college. (IRT)

This study produced a taxonomy of planning data sources of use by comprehensive educational planners at the school district level. The taxonomy identifies and classifies these sources on the basis of the data they provide. (Author/IRT)

Monte Carlo simulation techniques use multiple values in the form of probability distributions for input variables and generate a distribution of possible futures. This article explores some of the implications of adopting a probabilistic approach to planning over the more conventional deterministic approach. (Author/IRT)

Lists 60 problems (and suggestions for their solution) that arose during the adoption of a management by objectives program, were suggested by that experience, or came out of the literature. (IRT)

The methodology, assumptions, and values viewed here are emergent factors that can provide the framework for a thriving new discipline. That the limits of the rational-man theory are beginning to be recognized is evidenced by considerable methodological flexibility and increased interests in personal, self-actualizing aspects of organizations.…

Presents trend projection models that address four problems--dramatic growth, modest growth, gradual decline, and precipitous decline. Each model approximates a linear trend over short time intervals. The models employ very elementary mathematics to produce forecasts of high accuracy. (Author/IRT)

Presents some of the results of and information learned in a recent nationwide survey of 140 school systems that were implementing PPBS. Focuses on the development of planning activities that can minimize the impact of problems or obstacles on the implementation of performance plans. (Author/IRT)