The Bureaucratic Elementary School [electronic resource] : Comparing Two Images of Elementary, Junior High, and High Schools / William A. Firestone and Robert E. Herriott.

Despite the tendency of researchers to assume all schools share a common organizational form, analysis of thirteen elementary and secondary schools provides evidence that elementary schools exhibit characteristics of the rational bureaucracy, while high schools tend to be more loosely coupled. Over...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ERIC)
Main Author:	Firestone, William A.
Corporate Author:	Research for Better Schools, inc
Other Authors:	Herriott, Robert E.
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[S.l.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1981.
Subjects:	Administrative Organization. Bureaucracy. Elementary Secondary Education. Institutional Characteristics. Organizational Theories. School Organization. School Surveys. Teacher Attitudes.