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School-based management is a reinvention and countermovement to a broader historical trend to centralize and standardize American education. The present study represents one component of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development's project to investigate how schools in 12 member nations can most effectively respond to recent reforms. Chapter 1 examines the historical context of sr-hool-based management, focusing on the changing locus of control in American education. Despite the popularity of decentralized management, concurrent reforms at the district, state, and federal levels often constrain its full implementation and further the trend toward centralization. Chapter 2 introduces the underlying rationale and prhictice of school-based management reforms. Chapter 3 presents a plan for investigating school-based management in six school districts across the United States. Chapter 4 describes reform implementation in each district