Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!NAUVM!CMSPMR01 From: CMSPMR01@NAUVM.BITNET (CMSPMR01 at NAUVM) Newsgroups: bit.listserv.edpolyan Subject: Site-based management Message-ID: Date: 7 Feb 90 14:57:30 GMT Sender: Professionals and Students Discussing Education Policy Analysis Reply-To: Professionals and Students Discussing Education Policy Analysis Lines: 17 Approved: NETNEWS@PSUVM Gateway In the Feb '90 _KAPPAN_, Larry Cuban is interviewed and discusses site/school based management. Many of the points made in the previous discussion are also made by Cuban. In addition, he notes that SOME teachers want more control while other beleive that principals are hired to do those things that "control the school." Again, the issue is cast in terms of a labor issue. However, juxtapose reading Cuban's remarks (and the disucussion on EDPOLYAN) with the article in the same _KAPPAN_ by Glasser and the importance of labor issues emerges as crucial to students doing quality work and receiving a quality education. I find it difficult to divorce the work issues of teachers from the instructional settings that they create. Oppressed teachers tend to oppress students -- the internalization of the values of oppressor appears to occur in most cases. I wonder how we turn these workplace issues into instructional and learning issues so they do have a predictable impact the learning process. I don't think they are irrelevant but how they are relevant and how we take advantage of their relevance to enhance learning is, to me, not especially clear.