Comments on Bloom ”Management in Schools” Henrik Jordahl SNS, 10 June 2015 Management in Swedish nursing homes 0 5 Percent Procent 10 15 Mean = 3,45 Medel=3,45 1 2 3 4 Total managementkvalitet; från 1 (worst practice) till 5 (best practice) Total management quality; from 1 (worst practice) to 5 (best practice) Source: Angelis & Jordahl, 2014. Att styra och leda äldreomsorg. SNS Förlag. 5 Total management quality by type of provider 5 4,5 4 3,5 3,78 3,4 3,34 3,29 3 2,5 2 1,5 1 Kommunala Municipal Ideella Nonprofit Stora företag Big 5 for-profit Små företag Small for-profit Dispersion of management quality by type of provider 5 4,5 4 3,5 3 2,5 2 1,5 1 Kommunala Municipal Ideella Nonprofit Stora Big 5 företag for-profit Små företag Small for-profit Importance of friskolor • Early expansion of friskolor in Sweden? • New schools vs reformed government schools? • For-profit companies? Management as a missing link? • Böhlmark & Lindahl (Economica, 2015) – ”… an increase in the share of independent school students improves average short- and long-term outcomes …” • Böhlmark, Grönqvist & Vlachos (Scandinavian Journal of Economics, forthcoming) – ”… individual principals have a substantive impact on … student outcomes. … it is difficult to determine which principal characteristics that shapes successful school management suggesting that possibly innate skills are central”
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