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9780750707145

No Quick Fixes

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  • ISBN13:

    9780750707145

  • ISBN10:

    0750707143

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1997-12-01
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

The challenge of school improvement for "failing schools" is a complex and much debated issue. This text attempts to help those working in, or Working With, Failing Schools And Aims To Contradict The Notion That there are no "quick fixes" for schools in difficulty.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii(1)
Glossary viii
1 No Quick Fixes: An Introduction
1(14)
Louise Stoll
Kate Myers
Part 1 Policy 15(30)
2 The Dark Side of the Moon: Imagining an End to Failure in Urban Education
17(17)
Michael Barber
3 No Slow Fixes Either: How Failing Schools in England are Being Restored to Health
34(11)
Michael Stark
Part 2 LEAs 45(40)
4 Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea? Implications for School and LEA Development Following an Accelerated Inspection Programme
47(17)
Rob Watling
David Hopkins
Alma Harris
John Beresford
5 Rising From the Ashes
64(21)
Christine Whatford
Part 3 Schools 85(32)
6 Highbury Grove-From Deconstruction to Reconstruction
86(10)
Vivien Cutler
7 Turning Around a Struggling School: A Case Study
96(11)
Linda Turner
8 Failing the Failures: The Conflict Between Care and the Curriculum
107(10)
Steven Pugh
Part 4 External Facilitators 117(28)
9 `I Didn't Know He Was Ill': The Role and Value of the Critical Friend
118(15)
John MacBeath
10 `A Trouble-shooter Calls': The Role of the Independent Consultant
133(12)
James Learmonth
Kathy Lowers
Part 5 Conceptual Issues 145(62)
11 What's Wrong With Our Schools? Understanding `Ineffective' and `Failing' Schools
147(16)
Caroline Lodge
12 The Study and Remediation of Ineffective Schools: Some Further Reflections
163(12)
David Reynolds
13 Who's Failing?
175(14)
Kate Myers
Harvey Goldstein
14 The Cruising School: The Unidentified Ineffective School
189(18)
Louise Stoll
Dean Fink
Part 6 International Perspectives 207(35)
15 An Anatomy of Ineffectiveness
209(13)
Sam Stringfield
16 Combating Failure at School: An International Perspective
222(20)
Karen Kovacs
Notes on Contributors 242(5)
Index 247

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