Product Description: This inspirational book tells the story of how school leaders and teachers have made dramatic improvements in their schools, thanks to a special blend of vision, creativity and determination. Our current education system is replete with new initiatives, government programmes, imposed targets and national tests...read more

Product Description: This intriguing book challenges the usual idea of how a weak or failing school can be turned into a successful one by the simple introduction of effective leadership and management. Bernard Barker describes the journey of a struggling British Midlands comprehensive through special measures...read more

Product Description: This book provides an introduction to and analysis of the concept of the restructuring of schools. It includes detailed case-study material, which analyses the theory, considers the real people involved, and offers practical solutions to the problems of understanding and managing restructuring...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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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)

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Product Description: This work examines the management of educational change, covering literacy skills for 11-year olds, distance education for community nurses, the application of TQM to a college of further education, and management of workplace learning. (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

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Product Description: This lively book is based on case studies written by heads from a variety of settings, each of them facing different problems and concerns. The issues raised are examined in-depth, including: * improving the quality of pupils' learning experience * effective staff organisation and development * development of policy and the management of resources * establishing good relaionships between the head, the school and the communit...read more