In this paper the authors develop a novel and intern. Iationally comparable index of management quality for schools and apply this methodology to measure management practices acro. Iss private and public schools across eight develop and developing economies. Three key findings emerg. First the ad. Ioption of basic managerial practices varies significantly across and within countries. Can founder D.R. Mehta devise a strategy to sustain the organization s good work The case BMVSS Changing Lives through Innovation One Jaipur Limb at a Time was written by Srikant Datar and colleagues.
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US obtain the highest average scores follow by Germany Italy and Brazil while India has the lowest scores. Second higher management scores are positively correlat with tter pupil outcomes. Third they show that that—similar to the private sector—different types of school Nepal Email List governance are associat with systematically different levels of management adoption. Key concepts include Management practices vary significantly across and within countries and are strongly link to pupil outcomes. Among autonomous government schools two key features account for a large fraction of the superior management performance of such schools having strong accountability of principals to an external governing body and exercising strong leadership through a coherent long term strategy for the school.
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School standards and could give broad support for the fostering of greater autonomy of government schools. Autonomy by itself is unlikely to delive r tter results. and motivat Japan Email List principals could make sure that decentraliz power leads to tter standards. Author Abstract We collect data on operations targets and human resources management practices in over schools ucating year olds in eight countries. Overall we show that higher management quality is strongly associat with tter ucational outcomes.
