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Complexity in School Systems

WM.P. MCLURE (Director of the Bureau of Educational Research and Professor of Educational Administration at the University of Illinois. After teaching Science in Oklahoma High Schools, he was appointed Principal of Talladega High School, Oklahoma; Research Associate with the New York State Education Department; and latterly, Director of the Bureau of Educational Research at the University of Mississippi. A graduate of the Universities of Oklahoma (A.B. and M.A.) and Columbia (Ph.D.), Professor McLure is recognized as a national authority on educational finance, and he has acted as consultant to a number of state and national commissions, including President Kennedy's Panel on Vocational Education. He has published more than thirty books and journal articles on aspects of educational administration.)

Journal of Educational Administration

ISSN: 0957-8234

Article publication date: 1 January 1963

116

Abstract

School systems are becoming larger and more complex, especially in urban areas. The organisation of the curriculum, deployment of staff, organization of materials and physical facilities and relationships of personnel in the system are becoming more diffused and interdependent. There is a need for measures to explain the intricacies of structure and functioning of school government, especially as these affect the costs of providing educational services. All of the school systems in Illinois, with the exception of the city of Chicago, are cooperating in an experimental test of formulae to measure the effects of the dispersion of operating units from the central administrative office, and the breadth and depth of the high school instructional programmes. These measures help to explode some commonly held myths about schools.

Citation

MCLURE, W.P. (1963), "Complexity in School Systems", Journal of Educational Administration, Vol. 1 No. 1, pp. 17-25. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb009568

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