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Schools are established to provide education for the young to prepare for their future roles in society. When the majority fail, we say schoola are ineffective.Different explanations have been advanced for ineffectiveness. This book offers descriptions and explanations for effective and less effective schools. School facilities, leadership, teacher and pupil factors are examined for their contribution to school effectiveness. Leadership behaviours in terms of instruction, transformation and administration are discussed to demonstrate how they influence school effectiveness. Teacher and pupil...

Society has increasingly placed greater emphasis on the adacemic achievement of its citizens the world over. There is growing concern about lower academic achievement of learners at different levels.Competition for places in high achieving schools, organization of extra lessons, hiring of private tutors demonstrate the importance attached to high academic achievement. Schools are ranked according to pass rates achieved.Schools inspectors categorise schools as outstanding or unsatisfactory largely on the basis of learners' performance. Research conducted to find out causes of poor academic...

The book examines causes of high failure rate in secondary schools using a qualitative methodology. Learners, teachers, heads of departments, principals (heads), inspectors, advisory teachers, parents and regional directors gave their views in during interviews on why schools are failing children. On the whole poor or weak monitoring system was viewed as largely responsible for high failure rate among other factors such as learner, teacher, leadership, parental and senior management factors. Organized in sections, read a section about each of the stakeholders at a time and find out what...