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.
Author(s): Tony Townsend
Year: 1997
Language: English
Pages: 264
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of illustrations......Page 12
Notes on contributors......Page 14
Preface......Page 20
Acknowledgements......Page 16
Quality and equality in education: central issues in the restructuring of education......Page 30
Connecting school effectiveness and school improvement: what have we learnt in the last ten years?......Page 43
Restructuring through school-based management: insights for improving tomorrow's schools......Page 62
Autonomy and mutuality: quality education and self-managing schools......Page 88
Inspection and school improvement in England and Wales: national contexts and local realities......Page 108
Quality assurance for schools: case study;New South Wales......Page 127
Ano te Hutinga o te Harakeke (The plucking still of the flaxbush): New Zealand's self-managing schools and five impacts from the ongoing restructuring of educational administration......Page 142
Underlying the chaos: factors explaining exemplary US elementary schools and the case for high-reliability organisations......Page 170
Systemic reform: a case study on restructuring one American public high school......Page 188
Weaving school and teacher development together......Page 209
Schools of the future: a case study in systemic educational development......Page 226
Afterword: problems and possibilities for tomorrow's schools......Page 242
Index......Page 255
