| Description |
x, 166 pages ; 25 cm |
| Series |
School development series |
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School development series.
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| Contents |
1. Threads and Meanings -- 2. Towards Complexity -- 3. The Nineteenth Century, I: Elementary Standards -- 4. The Nineteenth Century, II: Some Recognized Authority -- 5. Expertise and Ignorance -- 6. 'Effective Schools': A Research Movement -- 7. Implementation, Policy and Judgement -- 8. Government, Market and Frameworks of Judgement -- 9. 'We Already Know'? |
| Summary |
In order to consider the nature of this effective schools research and movement, the book sets them against a background of nineteenth- and twentieth-century judgements of what, in Britain, has constituted a good school. It traces the power of inspectors, examinations, governments, managers and others to make judgements and to define the criteria for making judgements, and ways in which research also became influential. This book is therefore an important piece of recent history, using mainly Britain and the United States to explain and illustrate the changes, and focusing on concepts of central importance in current schools policy and practice internationally |
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This book examines the changes, and reasons for the changes, in ways in which schools have been judged to be 'good' or 'effective'. A major focus is the development from the 1970s of a research-based movement in Britain, the United States and elsewhere that has explored school effectiveness and improvement. The author traces the development of the American and British research, and the ways in which it affected American school policy and practice - and failed to do so in competition with national policies that aimed at a national curriculum, assessment and related changes |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Education and state.
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Education -- Research -- Methodology -- History.
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Education -- Aims and objectives -- Great Britain.
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Education -- Great Britain -- History.
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Education -- Aims and objectives -- United States.
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Educational evaluation -- Great Britain -- History.
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Educational evaluation -- United States -- History.
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Education -- United States -- History.
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Educational evaluation.
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School improvement programs.
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School management and organization -- History.
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Schools -- Great Britain -- History.
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Schools -- Evaluation -- History.
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Schools -- Great Britain.
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Schools -- United States -- History.
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Schools -- United States.
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| LC no. |
95186696 |
| ISBN |
0304329711 |
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0304329738 (paperback) |
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