School effectiveness for whom? : challenges to the school effectiveness and school improvement movements /

Other Authors: Weiner, Gaby.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; Bristol, PA : Falmer Press, 1998.
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Online Access:http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=88312
Table of Contents:
  • Book Cover; Title; Contents; Introduction: School Effectiveness for Whom?; Setting the Debates; The Idols of the Market Place; Cultures of Blame and Redemption; When Empowerment Becomes Control: Practitioners' Views of the Effective Schools Movement; The Tyranny of the International Horse Race; Theorizing the Debates; Models of Effective Schools: Limits and Capabilities; Educational Studies, Policy Entrepreneurship and Social Theory; School Effects in Postmodern Conditions; High Reliability Organizations and Liability Students; The Politics of Recognition.