PPBS In Education.
1973; Penn State University Press; Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
1527-2060
Autores Tópico(s)Educational Assessment and Improvement
ResumoAccountability is a new religion, and Planning-Program ming-Budgeting Systems (PPBS) may be regarded as one of its denominations. Some of its tenets?formality and speci ficity of goals, long-range forecasts and projections, evaluation of expenditures in terms of results, extensive use of data and computers ?violate some of the ingrained beliefs of administrators and staff, particularly in education, with its several priesthoods of curriculum, supervision, business, and so on. The PPB advocate, particularly in a public school district, may be greeted with the kind of reception that greeted Robert MacNamara in the Pentagon. Of course, in the beginning, every one loves PPB. After all, who can be against better planning and management, who can despise new information systems, who ? save those with something to hide?can oppose the new faith of Accountability. But later, when the early expectations are adjusted ,by the realities of formal planning and budgeting, the mood changes, and the PPB director begins to be called a technocrat, human computer, or dehumanizer. In a dispute between PPB and the current system, the ^bur den of proof is upon the advocate's ideas, not upon the status quo. Some of the objections to PPB are devious; that is, they are respectable versions of more self-indulgent reactions to the system. In general, doubters and detractors should be encouraged to speak out. Remember that secrecy of goals and motives is an Accountability sin!
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