ABSTRACT

School improvement has become a dominant feature of educational reform in many countries. The pressure upon schools to improve performance has resulted in a wide-range of improvement programmes and initiatives which can provide both inspiration and advice to everyone involved in school improvement.



This book draws together the most effective school improvement projects from around the world in one comprehensive text, including detailed comparative analysis of a wide variety of initiatives. Drawing on examples from the UK, the USA, Canada, South Africa and Australia this book gives both an international snapshot and a coherent synthesis of initiatives that have given achievable results.

part 1|38 pages

Setting the Context

part 2|68 pages

School Improvement: Phases 2 and 3

chapter 2|15 pages

Success for All

Research and Reform in Reading 1

chapter 3|21 pages

The High Reliability Schools Project 1

Some Preliminary Results and Analyses

chapter 4|13 pages

Learning from Difference

Some Reflections on School Improvement Projects in Three Countries

chapter 5|17 pages

Effective School Improvement

Similarities and Differences in Improvement in Eight European Countries 1

part 3|185 pages

School Improvement: Phase 4

chapter 6|20 pages

Changing Secondary Schools Is Hard

Lessons from 10 Years of School Improvement in the Manitoba School Improvement Program

chapter 7|57 pages

Building Instructional Quality

'Inside-out' and 'Outside-in' Perspectives on San Diego's School Reform 1

chapter 8|31 pages

Standards-based Reform and Small Schools of Choice 1

How Reform Theories Converge in Three Urban Middle Schools

chapter 9|24 pages

Education District Development in South Africa

A New Direction for School Improvement? 1

chapter 10|33 pages

The Challenge of Systemic Change in Complex Educational Systems

A District Model to Scale Up Reform 1

chapter 11|18 pages

The Creation of Knowledge Networks

Collaborative Enquiry for School and System Improvement 1

part 4|15 pages

Toward Phase 5 School Improvement

chapter 12|13 pages

Conclusion

Future Directions for the Field