Enhancing Educational Excellence, Equity and Efficiency: Evidence from evaluations of systems and schools in change

✍ Scribed by Roel J. Bosker, Bert P. M. Creemers (auth.), Roel J. Bosker, Bert P. M. Creemers, Sam Stringfield (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 264
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Promoting high standards in education while striving for equal opportunities under the budget constraints - these are the new global objectives of education systems.
This book brings together research-based evidence on the effectiveness of major Australian, Dutch, and UK improvement efforts in education at both primary and secondary level, whilst making comparisons with similar US initiatives. The book addresses several major questions in this new environment. Those questions include: how to combat educational disadvantages, how to integrate pupils with special educational needs in regular education, how to implement educational standards initiatives, how to restructure secondary education, how to implement decentralized policy-making, and how to implement a class size reduction initiative? Finally, the authors suggest directions for future research in order to increase our understanding of what works in education and why.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Enduring Problems and Changing Conceptions....Pages 1-9
Changing Relationships between Centre and Locality in Education....Pages 11-35
The Enhancement of Educational Opportunities of Disadvantaged Children....Pages 37-64
Integration Policy and Practice....Pages 65-88
The Forthcoming Class Size Reduction Initiative....Pages 89-112
Quality and Opportunities in Secondary Education: Implementation and Effects of the Common Core Curriculum....Pages 113-135
Evaluating the Impact of a Raising School Standards Initiative....Pages 137-165
Systemic, Whole-School Reform of the Middle Years of Schooling....Pages 167-196
Review and Prospects of Educational Effectiveness Research in The Netherlands....Pages 197-222
The Future Agenda of Studies into the Effectiveness of Schools....Pages 223-251
Back Matter....Pages 253-259

✦ Subjects

Assessment, Testing and Evaluation; International and Comparative Education; Learning & Instruction