School management in transition : schooling on the edge / Dale E. Shuttleworth.
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TextSeries: Student outcomes and the reform of educationPublication details: London ; New York : RoutledgeFalmer, 2003.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 169 pages)Content type: - text
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- online resource
- 0203426339
- 9780203426333
- 371.2 22
- LB2806 .S47 2003eb
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-162) and index.
Print version record.
Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Crisis in the classroom; Leadership in transition; Loosening the ties; Test-score Olympics; Top-down reform; Outsourcing the service; Bottom-up renewal; Community education partnerships; Micropolitics of governance; Zero tolerance; Digital divide; Learning to manage knowledge; Tracking innovation; Management for a learning society; Leaders for the twenty-first century; Appendix: National profiles; Bibliography; Index.
This book draws on an OECD survey that sets out to identify innovation and good practice in school management in nine of the world's most industrialised countries. The book describes what is being done to improve educational management among these.