The Importance of Regionalism in the Decision-Making Style of Local Boards of Education [electronic resource] / Paul D. Blanchard and Robert L. Kline.
This study examines some of the characteristics of decision-making on school boards, focusing on the behavior of southern school board members in comparison with their counterparts in other regions of the country. Data were collected in 1975 at the convention of the National School Boards Associatio...
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| Language: | English |
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| Summary: | This study examines some of the characteristics of decision-making on school boards, focusing on the behavior of southern school board members in comparison with their counterparts in other regions of the country. Data were collected in 1975 at the convention of the National School Boards Association (NSBA). Self-administered questionnaires were randomly distributed by the NSBA staff members to board members and superintendents. This procedure generated a sample of 1,091 school board members and 116 superintendents. Three areas of board decisional behavior are studied--representation and representativeness, including the degree of representation of women on the board and whether the members of the boards view themselves as representatives or trustees and whether they view the board as more like a corporation board or like a legislature; accessibility to groups and the public; and the decision-making style of the board. The latter topic is concerned with two broad areas--whether the superintendent or the board is dominant and whether the board is bipolar, unipolar, nonpolar, or concealed in its decisional conflicts. Generally, school board politics in the South is different from that found in other regions in several important ways. (Author/IRT) |
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| Item Description: | ERIC Document Number: ED136377. ERIC Note: Paper presented at the "Conference on the Urban South: Perspectives and Retrospectives" (Charleston, South Carolina, March 25-26, 1977). Educational level discussed: Elementary Secondary Education. |
| Physical Description: | 23 p. |