Screen LibraryImproving schools and educational systems：international perspectives
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| Group Author: | ; |
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| Published: |
Routledge,
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| Publisher Address: | London New York |
| Publication Dates: | 2006. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Contexts of learning |
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| Carrier Form: | xvii, 315 p.: ill. ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
0415362229 (hbk. : alk. paper) 9780415362221 (hbk. : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | G47 |
| CLC: | G47 |
| Call Number: | G47/I349-1 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction / Alma Harris and Janet H. Chrispeels -- A brief history of school improvement research in the USA / Charles B. Teddlie and Samuel Stringfield -- Success for all : research and reform in reading / Robert E. Slavin and Nancy A. Madden -- The high reliability schools project : some preliminary results and analyses / David Reynolds, Sam Stringfield, and Eugene C. Schaffer -- Learning from difference : some reflections on school improvement projects in three countries / Paul Clarke, Mel Ainscow and Mel West -- Effective school improvement : similarities and differences in improvement in eight European countries / Louise Stoll, Bert P.M. Creemers and Gerry Reezigt -- Changing secondary schools is hard : lessons from 10 years of school improvement in the Manitoba School Improvement Program / Lorna Earl, Nancy Torrance, and Stephanie Sutherland -- Building instructional quality : 'inside-out' and 'outside-in' perspectives on San Diego's school reform / Linda Darling-Hammond, Amy M. Hightower, Jennifer L. Husbands, Jeannette R. LaFors, Viki M. Young and Carl Christopher -- Standards-based reform and small schools of choice : how reform theories converge in three urban middle schools / Chrysan Gallucci, Michael S. Knapp, Anneke Markholt and Suzanne Ort -- Education district development in South Africa : a new direction for school improvement? / Brahm Fleisch -- The challenge of systemic change in complex educational systems : a district model to scale up reform / Janet H. Chrispeels and Margerita González -- The creation of knowledge networks : collaborative enquiry for school and system improvement / David Jackson -- Conclusion : future directions for the field / Janet H. Chrispeels and Alma Harris. |