Instructional Leadership at the District Level: A Closer Look at Autonomy and Control

Results from a multistate study illustrate a new perspective on district instructional leadership, a perspective that moves beyond the autonomy-control dichotomy. For fourth-grade mathematics, districts seem to have vague intentions to direct instructional content but no strategy for doing so. Distr...

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Published in:Educational administration quarterly 1988-05, Vol.24 (2), p.96-124
Main Authors: Floden, Robert E., Porter, Andrew C., Alford, Linda E., Freeman, Donald J., Irwin, Susan, Schmidt, William H., Schwille, John R.
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