ABSTRACT

In 1996 Routledge published Success Against the Odds, which looked at how a sample of schools in a variety of disadvantaged areas managed to be effective, despite the odds being stacked against them. Since that time much has been written on school improvement and raising standards. Success Against the Odds - Five Years On revisits the eleven schools that were studied in the first book to see if they are still managing to do well in the current climate. The book looks at what has been learnt and developed in the field of school improvement and effectiveness during the period between 1995 and 2000 and implications for policy and practice are discussed.

chapter |39 pages

Introduction

Building for improvement and sustaining change in schools serving disadvantaged communities

chapter 1|12 pages

Blaengwrach Primary School

Neath, West Glamorgan

chapter 2|23 pages

Columbia Primary School

Tower Hamlets, London

chapter 3|25 pages

Crowcroft Park Primary School

Manchester

chapter 4|26 pages

Fair Furlong Primary School

City of Bristol

chapter 5|26 pages

Lochgelly North Special School

Lochgelly, Fife

chapter 7|21 pages

Haywood High School

Stoke-on-Trent

chapter 8|24 pages

Hazelwood College

Belfast

chapter 9|21 pages

St Michael's Roman Catholic Comprehensive School

Billingham, Stockton-on-Tees

chapter 10|25 pages

Selly Park Technology College for Girls

Birmingham

chapter 11|32 pages

Sutton Centre

Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire

chapter |33 pages

Further Lessons in Success