ABSTRACT
The restructuring of schools systems across the world has been controversial. Have reforms been driven by a desire to cut educational budgets or the need to improve the quality of educational provision? This book explores the restructuring movement, with a particular emphasis on how decentralisation of power has affected the quality of education. It provides a broad and international picture of educational reform.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
Part I Restructuring for quality in schools
chapter 1|13 pages
Quality and equality in education
Central issues in the restructuring of education
chapter 2|19 pages
Connecting school effectiveness and school improvement
What have we learnt in the last ten years?
chapter 3|26 pages
Restructuring through school-based management
Insights for improving tomorrow’s schools
part |2 pages
Part II Assuring quality in schools and school systems
chapter 5|19 pages
Inspection and school improvement in England and Wales
National contexts and local realities
chapter 7|26 pages
Ano te Hutinga o te Harakeke (The plucking still of the flaxbush)
New Zealand’s self-managing schools and five impacts from the ongoing restructuring of educational administration
part |2 pages
Part III The impact of restructuring on schools and school systems
chapter 8|18 pages
Underlying the chaos
Factors explaining exemplary US elementary schools and the case for high-reliability organisations
