School Effectiveness, School Improvement

✍ Scribed by David Reynolds; Nigel Bennett

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Year: 2004
Tongue: English
Leaves: 201
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

The pressure on schools to improve and to raise achievement continues to be a dominant issue in both school and government policies. School Effectiveness and School Improvement seeks to develop the debate further, providing academics and practitioners alike with a summary and discussion of research on school effectiveness and school improvement up to the present; new perspectives on these fields, developed from other traditions of thinking and research; a consideration of the role of organization theory; an integrated view of these current perspectives; and clear, practical implications for policy and practice."

✦ Subjects

School improvement programs -- Great Britain. ; School management and organization -- Great Britain.; EDU032000; NON000000; NON000000

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