Title No quick fixes : perspectives on schools in difficulty / edited by Louise Stoll and Kate Myers.

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London ; Washington, D.C. : Falmer Press, 1998.

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University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location	371.2 N739N	Check Shelf

Description	253 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	1. No Quick Fixes: An Introduction / Louise Stoll and Kate Myers -- pt. 1. Policy. 2. The Dark Side of the Moon: Imagining an End to Failure in Urban Education / Michael Barber. 3. No Slow Fixes Either: How Failing Schools in England are Being Restored to Health / Michael Stark -- pt. 2. LEAs. 4. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea? Implications for School and LEA Development Following an Accelerated Inspection Programme / Rob Watling, David Hopkins and Alma Harris [and others]. 5. Rising From the Ashes / Christine Whatford -- pt. 3. Schools. 6. Highbury Grove -- From Deconstruction to Reconstruction / Vivien Cutler. 7. Turning Around a Struggling School: A Case Study / Linda Turner. 8. Failing the Failures: The Conflict Between Care and the Curriculum / Steven Pugh -- pt. 4. External Facilitators. 9. 'I Didn't Know He Was Ill': The Role and Value of the Critical Friends / John MacBeath.
	10. 'A Trouble-shooter Calls': The Role of the Independent Consultant / James Learmonth and Kathy Lowers -- pt. 5. Conceptual Issues. 11. What's Wrong With Our Schools? Understanding 'Ineffective' and 'Failing' Schools / Caroline Lodge. 12. The Study and Remediation of Ineffective Schools: Some Further Reflections / David Reynolds. 13. Who's Failing? / Kate Myers and Harvey Goldstein. 14. The Cruising School: The Unidentified Ineffective School / Louise Stoll and Dean Fink -- pt. 6. International Perspectives. 15. An Anatomy of Ineffectiveness / Sam Stringfield. 16. Combating Failure at School: An International Perspective / Karen Kovacs.
Summary	The challenge of school improvement for "failing schools" is a complex and much debated issue. This text attempts to help those working in, or working with, failing schools and aims to contradict the notion that there are no "quick fixes".
Subject	School management and organization -- Great Britain.
	School improvement programs -- Great Britain.
	Educational productivity -- Great Britain.
	Education and state -- Great Britain.
	Educational leadership -- Great Britain.
	Education and state. (OCoLC)fst00902835
	Educational leadership. (OCoLC)fst00903527
	Educational productivity. (OCoLC)fst00903566
	School improvement programs. (OCoLC)fst01107461
	School management and organization. (OCoLC)fst01107575
	Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
Added Author	Stoll, Louise, 1956-
	Myers, Kate.
ISBN	0750707143
	9780750707145
	0750706740 (pbk.)
	9780750706742 (pbk.)

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