Making Good Schools: Linking School Effectiveness and Improvement (Politics of Language)

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Illustrations......Page 8
Foreword......Page 9
Preface......Page 11
INTRODUCTION......Page 14
The market principle......Page 16
Policy-making......Page 18
CULTURAL DIFFERENCES......Page 21
THE CONCEPTUALISATION OF THE SCHOOL......Page 24
THE CONCEPT OF IMPROVEMENT......Page 26
SOME PROBLEMS WITH EFFECTIVENESS RESEARCH......Page 28
PROBLEMS WITH SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT......Page 29
WHY EFFECTIVENESS RESEARCH AND SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT PRACTICE SHOULD BE LINKED......Page 30
REFERENCES......Page 31
INTRODUCTION......Page 34
DIFFERENT KINDS OF CRITERIA FOR EFFECTIVENESS AND IMPROVEMENT......Page 37
STUDENT OUTCOMES......Page 39
DECISION-MAKING ABOUT OBJECTIVES......Page 42
CONCLUSIONS......Page 45
REFERENCES......Page 46
INTRODUCTION......Page 50
THE FIRST GENERATION OF SCHOOL EFFECTIVENESS STUDIES......Page 51
THE SECOND GENERATION OF SCHOOL EFFECTIVENESS STUDIES......Page 54
A COMPREHENSIVE MODEL OF EDUCATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS......Page 61
Classroom level......Page 63
School level......Page 66
Context level......Page 67
CONCLUSIONS......Page 68
REFERENCES......Page 69
THE STUDY OF SCHOOL CHANGE AND SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT......Page 74
THE CENTRALISATION-DECENTRALISATION PARADOX AND THE PATHOLOGY OF EDUCATIONAL CHANGE......Page 77
DEFINING SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT......Page 81
THE PROCESS OF CHANGE AND SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT......Page 83
A FRAMEWORK FOR SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT......Page 86
STRATEGIES FOR CHANGE......Page 89
SOME PROPOSITIONS FOR SUCCESSFUL SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT......Page 94
TOWARDS A THEORY FOR SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT......Page 101
REFERENCES......Page 103
SCHOOL EFFECTIVENESS AND SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT: AN INTERNATIONAL SURVEY......Page 108
THE SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT PARADIGM......Page 111
THE SCHOOL EFFECTIVENESS PARADIGM......Page 112
THE BEGINNINGS OF MERGER......Page 114
THE NEEDS FOR MERGER......Page 115
CONCLUSIONS......Page 121
REFERENCES......Page 122
INTRODUCTION......Page 126
HALTON’S EFFECTIVE SCHOOLS PROJECT IN CANADA......Page 129
IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF EDUCATION FOR ALL (IQEA)......Page 131
THE LEWISHAM SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT PROJECT IN LONDON......Page 135
SCHOOLS MAKE A DIFFERENCE (SMAD) IN HAMMERSMITH AND FULHAM, LONDON......Page 139
THE BARCLAY-CALVERT PROJECT IN THE UNITED STATES......Page 141
THE DUTCH NATIONAL SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT PROJECT......Page 145
THE HIGHLY RELIABLE SCHOOL PROJECT IN THE UNITED KINGDOM......Page 148
TOWARDS THIRD WAVE PROJECTS......Page 151
Context-specific school improvement......Page 152
Transformation in the ‘culture’ of schools......Page 154
REFERENCES......Page 156
Index......Page 160