ABSTRACT

David Reynolds is recognised internationally as one of the leaders of the school effectiveness and school improvement movement, and Failure Free Education? brings together for the first time many of his most influential and provocative pieces. Drawing on the author’s work from over three decades, these extracts from his seminal books, chapters, papers and articles combine to give a unique overview of how the movement developed, the problems involved in the application of the knowledge and the disciplines’ potentially glittering future now.

The book also covers the issues raised by, and lessons learned from, his close involvement with English government educational policymaking from the mid 1990s to date.

This book is essential reading for those who seek to understand how we can make every school a good school, and what the obstacles may be to achieving that goal.

chapter 1|28 pages

Introduction

School effectiveness and school improvement in retrospect, 1971–2010, and prospect, 2010 onwards

chapter 2|22 pages

The delinquent school

chapter 3|12 pages

The study and remediation of ineffective schools

Some further reflections

chapter 5|19 pages

Creating world-class schools

What have we learned?

chapter 6|6 pages

Teacher effectiveness

Better teachers, better schools

chapter 7|27 pages

School effectiveness and teacher effectiveness in mathematics

Some preliminary findings from the evaluation of the Mathematics Enhancement Programme (Primary)

chapter 8|19 pages

The High Reliability Schools Project

Some preliminary results and analyses

chapter 10|10 pages

School improvement for schools facing challenging circumstances

A review of research and practice

chapter 12|19 pages

Schools learning from their best

The Within School Variation (WSV) Project