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Failure-Free Education?: The Past, Present and Future of School Effectiveness and School Improvement
Contributor(s): Reynolds, David (Author)
ISBN: 0415367832     ISBN-13: 9780415367837
Publisher: Routledge
OUR PRICE:   $161.50  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: April 2010
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Annotation: This collection of David Reynolds' writing brings together for the first time many of his most influential and thought-provoking pieces. Drawing on the author's work from over three decades the individual article, paper and book extracts combine to give a valuable overview of how school effectiveness is both perceived and changing.

The individual papers have been updated to reflect recent changes,   while fresh material firmly sets the collection within a modern context. Grouped into four coherent sections, the book covers all aspects of school effectiveness, looking at:

  • laying the foundations of the effective school
  • pushing the boundaries
  • trying to influence policy and practice
  • contemporary cutting-edge solutions.

Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Education | Evaluation & Assessment
- Education | Decision Making & Problem Solving
- Education | Research
Dewey: 371.207
LCCN: 2009034684
Series: Contexts of Learning (Hardcover)
Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.18 lbs) 254 pages
 
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Publisher Description:

David Reynolds is recognised internationally as one of the leaders of the school effectiveness and school improvement movement, and Failure Free Education? brings together for the first time many of his most influential and provocative pieces. Drawing on the author's work from over three decades, these extracts from his seminal books, chapters, papers and articles combine to give a unique overview of how the movement developed, the problems involved in the application of the knowledge and the disciplines' potentially glittering future now.

The book also covers the issues raised by, and lessons learned from, his close involvement with English government educational policymaking from the mid 1990s to date.

This book is essential reading for those who seek to understand how we can make every school a good school, and what the obstacles may be to achieving that goal.