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This work aims to transform the study of school reform, development and improvement. It not only provides an overview of policy developments, professional and political issues, research findings and their history; it also relates such thinking to case studies.

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Schools acting alone cannot achieve the greatest possible improvement and transformation under the conditions that currently prevail. This book aims to help senior leaders re-imagine and transform the partnership between their school and its community, and develop the capacity to lead that change.

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In spite of all the media attention and national concern about schools, this is the only book that documents real improvements in learning, confidence, and morale, proven through the author's 15 years of research and experience.

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New research about micro-level resource allocation decisions in education. At each level, the findings suggest causes of the practices and implications for improving school effectiveness.

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The contributions in this book discuss a wide range of proposals, including greater school choice, charter schools, promoting contact with the business community, public-private partnerships, and more.

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How can education be restructured to align more closely with the complex ways in which students actually create meaning and learn

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Offers a radical critique of prevailing models of leadership in education, particularly models of school leadership, notably the British view of headship. This book presents an alternative model of leadership. It focuses on leadership attitudes, values and personal qualities (the elusive and intangible elements of leadership).

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A discussion of many of the dilemmas and problems facing school administrators. Topics include: conflicting beliefs regarding the fundamental purpose of school, administering racial and ethnic differences, and monetary incentives to reform teacher compensation.

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School leadership is undergoing significant change as headteachers respond to new opportunities and challenges offered to or imposed on them as a result of government policy. This book considers the developing nature of school leadership and the impact of new roles for headteachers inside and outside school and system leadership.

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School leadership is undergoing significant change as headteachers respond to new opportunities and challenges offered to or imposed on them as a result of government policy. This book considers the developing nature of school leadership and the impact of new roles for headteachers inside and outside school and system leadership.

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School choice has risen to the top of the list of potential solutions to America's educational problems. This collection of essays redresses this situation by addressing the moral and normative side of school choice. It considers the relationship of school choice to equality, moral pluralism, institutional ecology, and constitutionality.

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Leading scholars in the fields of history and law analyse the outcomes of school desegregation and conclude that the policies of the past - mandatory reassignment and strict racial quotas - had too few benefits and too many costs to make them viable alternatives for the future.

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The author offers a complete overview of the theoretical basis for school improvement, questioning assumptions about the nature of educational insitiutions. The study focuses in particular on the role of the head or principal in school improvment and seeks to provide up to date treatment of one of the major issues in world education.

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School effectiveness is a subject of growing interest to teachers. This book reviews up-to-date research in school effectiveness and improvement and examines key questions including assessing school effectiveness and examination attainment. Contributors are all researchers in the field.

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Comprehensive study for furthering the debate on how to improve and raise achievement within schools.

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The reality of school life, from which any theory of school effectiveness must derive, is illustrated by an ethnographic account of the job of the headteacher in developing countries.

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School Business Managers are encountering professionals from the wider community, in addition to the internal staff they are used to managing. This context demands alternative and innovative strategies to develop effective working relationships. This book provides examples of these.

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Explore this controversial approach to education, its practical applications, successes, and failures in a straightforward guide that covers every facet of the issue, from for-profit schools to outsourcing of school management to vouchers.

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Human relationships are fundamental to educational and social development and increasing importance is being attached to cooperation and collaboration between schools and the community. This book is rooted in the principle that every child and young person has a fundamental entitlement to equal educational opportunities.

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This provocative and accessible text is addressed to prospective and practicing teachers who believe schools must be fundamentally reformed to meet student needs in an information age.

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This provocative and accessible text is addressed to prospective and practicing teachers who believe schools must be fundamentally reformed to meet student needs in an information age.

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This book is a study of how the changing ethos of schooling transformed and redefined what it means to be a teacher. The fundamental reasons why people are drawn to the teaching profession have remained remarkably stable, while the ethos of the schools have changed since the mid -1960s.