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How to Improve Your School
Contributor(s): Brighouse, Tim (Author), Woods, David (Author)
ISBN: 041519444X     ISBN-13: 9780415194440
Publisher: Routledge
OUR PRICE:   $47.45  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: January 1999
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Annotation: Taking a practical look at how standards in education can be raised, this book cuts through jargon to show how ideas and intentions can be translated into effective action that will help schools.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Education | Administration - General
- Education | Educational Policy & Reform
Dewey: 371.200
LCCN: 98-34525
Physical Information: 0.4" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.60 lbs) 188 pages
 
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Publisher Description:

This best-selling book takes a practical look at how improvements can be made in any school.
It cuts through the jargon of the specialist and shows how ideas and intentions can be turned into direct actions that will help a school improve its performance and effectiveness.
As well as addressing headteachers and governors, the book will also provide invaluable guidance for all those who work in and with schools.
There are chapters on:
*effective schools and how they have achieved their goals
*leadership within schools
*teaching and learning effectively
*making critical interventions to secure improvement
*how schools involve others to aid improvement.
This is a book that no school will want to be without. It is essential reading for anyone involved in education.

Tim Brighouse is Chief Education Officer for Birmingham City Council and is a national figure in education. David Woods is a Senior Education Adviser at the DfEE.