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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|38 pages
Setting the Context
part 2|68 pages
School Improvement: Phases 2 and 3
chapter 4|13 pages
Learning from Difference
chapter 5|17 pages
Effective School Improvement
part 3|185 pages
School Improvement: Phase 4
chapter 6|20 pages
Changing Secondary Schools Is Hard
chapter 7|57 pages
Building Instructional Quality
chapter 8|31 pages
Standards-based Reform and Small Schools of Choice 1
chapter 9|24 pages
Education District Development in South Africa
chapter 10|33 pages
The Challenge of Systemic Change in Complex Educational Systems
chapter 11|18 pages
The Creation of Knowledge Networks
part 4|15 pages
Toward Phase 5 School Improvement