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School-to-School Cooperation as a Strategy for Improving Student Outcomes in Challenging Contexts
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West, Mel – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2010
This paper reflects on experiences of working with schools in urban contexts as they have attempted to improve the quality of learning. Set within the context of the English education system during a period of intense national pressure to "raise standards", these experiences have been focused around issues of performance and leadership…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Improvement Programs, Partnerships in Education, Change Strategies
On the Search for Regularities in Studies of School Effectiveness and Improvement: Some Comments on Peter Tymms' Comments.
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Gray, John; And Others – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 1995
School-effectiveness researchers have had difficulty quantifying stability in effectiveness over time. Responding to Peter Tymms's argument that Gray and associates have not provided an authoritative statistical analysis of school effectiveness (in a study of 30 British secondary schools), this article asserts that this study was concerned with…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Effective Schools Research, Foreign Countries, Research Needs
Using the Past To Plan the Future: Making Sense of Almost Four Decades of Research.
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Gray, John – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2001
"The International Handbook of School Effectiveness Research" (2000) by C. Teddlie and D. Reynolds is a searching, authoritative assessment of the SER field. However, the field should acknowledge its failures and lose its "schools make a difference" mantra. The "next wave" must grapple directly with implementing and…
Descriptors: Book Reviews, Educational Change, Effective Schools Research, Elementary Secondary Education