Having been given a special crystal globe of New York City by his grandmother, a young boy awakens one night to find himself inside it where he is whisked away on a magical journey to see all the city's great buildings and famous landmarks.

Product Description: The government has made raising standards in schools a key priority. How have schools been responding? How rapidly have schools been improving and what strategies have they developed? Based around a major research project funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, "Improving Schools" looks at what has been happening across the country in recent years...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Based on a three-year study, this book examines what happens when schools are inspected. It explores the aftermath of inspection and the ways in which schools do (or don't) take up inspectors' challenges. The limits and possibilities of inspection as a mechanism for school reform are analyzed...read more

Product Description: During the first half of the 1990s the British government turned inspection into an ambitious instrument of educational policy-making. Initially it encouraged local education authorities to experiment with inspection 'in all its forms'...read more