Copyright 1988 “School Based Improvement: A Manual for District Leaders,” by Barbara Hansen and Carl Marburger, is a handbook for ad6ministrators and board members seeking to transfer more authority to officials at the school level. “School Based Improvement and Effective Schools: A Perfect Match for Bottom-Up Reform” is an annotated bibliography of recent research and articles.
As their titles suggest, the works stress that the goal of change is to produce schools in which children can learn more effectively.
Copies of the manual are available for $35 each, and of the bibliography for $10 each, plus $2 each for shipping and handling, from the ncce, 10840 Little Patuxent Parkway, Suite 301, Columbia, Md. 21044.
