No Quick Fixes: Perspectives on Schools in Difficulty

ISBN-13: 9780750707145 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 264 str.

Louise Stoll; Kate Myers

Opis

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 for schools in difficulty.

Recenzje

'I wholeheartedly recommend it to all concerned with school improvement, be they practitioners, academics or policy makers ... there are powerful messages to be found within it. On a personal note, I can only hope that those responsible for forging educational policy will read the book and digest its contents.' - Cambridge Journal of Education Vol 28:3 1998

' ... teachers would do well to heed Michael Barber's call in this collection to begin to construct the teaching profession of the future based on the newly developed conviction that schools can and do make a difference.' - Educational Review Vol 51:1 1999

'The introduction alone provides food for thought.' - Education Review Vol 12:2 Winter 1998/1999

'This is simply a superb book ... It should be widely read by all in education, particulary at the highest levels of public decision making.' - Managing Schools Today

O autorze

Professor Louise Stoll, Louise Stoll