Two competing images of schools that have attracted considerable attention are the rational bureaucracy and the anarchy or loosely coupled system. This article explicates these images and operationalizes them using survey data. High schools were found to have more characteristics of the anarchy while elementary schools corresponded more to the rational bureaucracy.
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