ABSTRACT
More than a decade ago, Paul Clarke, Mel Ainscow and myself wrote the book Third Millennium Schools: A World of Difference in Effectiveness and Improvement (Townsend et al., 1999), which documented the thinking of scholars who had contributed to the 11th Annual ICSEI conference in Manchester in 1998. Since that time, the world has changed quite a bit. We have had terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, we have had wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, we have had a black president elected in the United States and we have had a plethora of inventions and innovations, such as the artificial heart and liver, the hybrid car, the birth control patch, running shoes that know how firm or soft they should be for your foot, the iPod and iPhone, the memory stick for your computer, Twitter, the Wii and YouTube.
