Restructuring and Quality: Issues for Tomorrow's Schools

by Townsend,Tony; Townsend,Tony

• ISBN13: 9780415133395
• ISBN10: 0415133394
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1997-06-25
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The restructuring of schools systems across the world has been controversial. Have reforms been driven by a desire to cut educational budgets or the need to improve the quality of educational provision? This book explores the restructuring movement, with a particular emphasis on how decentralisation of power has affected the quality of education. It provides a broad and international picture of educational reform.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xix
Acknowledgements	p. xxv
Restructuring for Quality in Schools	p. 1
Quality and Equality in Education	p. 3
References	p. 15
Connecting School Effectiveness and School Improvement	p. 16
Restructuring Through School-Based Management	p. 35
Autonomy and Mutuality	p. 61
Note	p. 76
Assuring Quality in Schools and School Systems	p. 79
Inspection and School Improvement in England and Wales	p. 81
Notes	p. 98
Quality Assurance for Schools	p. 100
Ano Te Hutinga O Te Harakeke (the Plucking Still of the Flaxbush)	p. 115
The Impact of Restructuring on Schools and School Systems	p. 141
Underlying the Chaos	p. 143
References	p. 159
Systemic Reform	p. 161
Weaving School and Teacher Development Together	p. 182
References	p. 196
Schools of the Future	p. 199
References	p. 213
Afterword	p. 215
Index	p. 228
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