Forging Links: Effective Schools and Effective Departments

by Pam Sammons, Peter Mortimore, Sally M Thomas

Overview

‘This book is a very useful text for anyone studying comparative education systems as well as those who seek to understand more fully the complexities and frustrations that lie beneath the underuse of the leadership skills and talents of women in schools, colleges and higher education in a number of European contexts: England and Wales, France, The Federal Republic of Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway and Spain' - School Leadership & Management

‘There are few books of which one can say 'all secondary teachers and governors should read this book' but this is one of them. I would recommend it to primary colleagues too....Its messages about school effectiveness can uniquely be app

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781853963490
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	10/28/1997
Series:	Administration and Leadership Series
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.56(d)

Table of Contents

Foreword - John Gray
Preface - Michael Barber
Introduction
The Study of Academic Departmental Differences in Effectiveness
PART ONE: MEASURING SCHOOL EFFECTIVENESSB
How Can We Measure School Effectiveness?
Differences in Academic Effectiveness B
PART TWO: EXPLAINING DIFFERENCES IN EFFECTIVENESS
Case Studies of More and Less Effective Schools and Departments
Practitioners’ Views of Effectiveness
Understanding Academic Effectiveness
PART THREE: THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS
Towards a Model of Academic Effectiveness in Schools
Implications for School Improvement
Last Words

Editorial Reviews

‘This book is a very useful text for anyone studying comparative education systems as well as those who seek to understand more fully the complexities and frustrations that lie beneath the underuse of the leadership skills and talents of women in schools, colleges and higher education in a number of European contexts: England and Wales, France, The Federal Republic of Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway and Spain' - School Leadership & Management

‘There are few books of which one can say 'all secondary teachers and governors should read this book' but this is one of them. I would recommend it to primary colleagues too....Its messages about school effectiveness can uniquely be applied to school improvement because there is data about how the same children fared under different regimes in different subject areas in the same school' - School Leadership & Management

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