Sleegers, Bergen and Giesbers all
work at the Department of
Education of the University of
Nijmegen in the Netherlands. In this
paper they consider two key questions.
Firstly, is it possible to distinguish
types of schools on the basis of their
policy-making capacity. Secondly, do
schools currently differ in their use of
the scope for policy-making as a result
of such differences in capacity. Their
answers to both questions are in the
affirmative.
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Correspondence to: Dr P. Sleegers, Dept of Education, University of Nijmegen, PO Box 9103, 6500 Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
