Oakland Public Schools; Superintendent's Bulletin

Oakland Public Schools; Superintendent's Bulletin PDF Author: Oakland (Calif.). Board of Education
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Languages : en
Pages : 440

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Oakland Public Schools; Superintendent's Bulletin

Oakland Public Schools; Superintendent's Bulletin PDF Author: Oakland (Calif.). Board of Education
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Languages : en
Pages : 440

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Journal

Journal PDF Author: University High School (Oakland, Calif.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 310

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Marcus Foster and the Oakland Public Schools

Marcus Foster and the Oakland Public Schools PDF Author: Jesse J. McCorry
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520310128
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 180

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Critics of public organizations have charged them with rigidity, insensitivity to public needs, inefficiency, and other faults. The charges are not new, but the surge of urban political activism during the 1960s gave a sense of urgency to demands for organizational change. Marcus Foster and the Oakland Public Schools examines an urban political executive’s efforts to meet those demands. In an attempt to reform education bureaucracy, Marcus Foster—former superintendent of schools in Oakland, California—introduced a three-part program of community participation, decentralization, and budgeting. Each component responded to a specific criticism of bureaucracies, and each was strongly supported by students of organizations. The most successful changes were those for which the superintendent controlled the requisite resources, enabling Foster to initiate community involvement and determine its procedures. But where change required existing bureaucratic units to relinquish some of their resources, Foster’s success was more limited. It was not, however, the control of resources by others but the unbridgeable gap between theory and application that burdened efforts to reform budgeting. Jesse J. McCorry shows how the common notion that organizational change is thwarted by bureaucratic recalcitrance and inertia is oversimplified. Broadening analytic perspectives reveals that some bureaucratic reforms, along with their objectives, are beyond the limits of what even the most effective leadership can achieve. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1978.

Oakland Public Schools

Oakland Public Schools PDF Author: Oakland (Calif.). Board of Education
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Category : Public schools
Languages : en
Pages : 442

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Oakland Public Schools; the Socialized School at Work as an Agency in Training for Citizenship; Report of the Superintendent of Schools, 1917-18

Oakland Public Schools; the Socialized School at Work as an Agency in Training for Citizenship; Report of the Superintendent of Schools, 1917-18 PDF Author: Oakland (Calif.). Board of Education
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 476

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The New Physical Education

The New Physical Education PDF Author: Thomas Denison Wood
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Category : Physical education and training
Languages : en
Pages : 482

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Educational Research Record

Educational Research Record PDF Author:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 776

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California Blue Bulletin

California Blue Bulletin PDF Author:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 838

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The Organization of Supervision

The Organization of Supervision PDF Author: Fred Carleton Ayer
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Category : School administrators
Languages : en
Pages : 428

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Auto Mechanics

Auto Mechanics PDF Author: Kevin L. Borg
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801886065
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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The history of automobiles is not just the story of invention, manufacturing, and marketing; it is also a story of repair. Auto Mechanics opens the repair shop to historical study—for the first time—by tracing the emergence of a dirty, difficult, and important profession. Kevin L. Borg's study spans a century of automotive technology—from the horseless carriage of the late nineteenth century to the "check engine" light of the late twentieth. Drawing from a diverse body of source material, Borg explores how the mechanic’s occupation formed and evolved within the context of broad American fault lines of class, race, and gender and how vocational education entwined these tensions around the mechanic’s unique expertise. He further shows how aspects of the consumer rights and environmental movements, as well as the design of automotive electronics, reflected and challenged the social identity and expertise of the mechanic. In the history of the American auto mechanic, Borg finds the origins of a persistent anxiety that even today accompanies the prospect of taking one's car in for repair.