A thorough examination of the characteristics of a high- performing school, written by Sir Cyril Taylor (Chairman of the Specialist Schools Trust) and Conor Ryan (senior adviser to Tony Blair on Education).
Understanding the ideological underpinnings of education reform in the past three decades
Excellence in Education: Perspectives on Policy and Practice
William G. Bowen, Martin A. Kurzweil, Eugene M. Tobin, Susanne C. Pichler. Ramphele , Mamphela . 1996. " Embracing the Future . ... William J. Fowler Jr. , 93-120 . Washington , D.C .: U.S. Department of Education , National Center for ...
This book critically analyses the current education political strategy of cultivating excellence in education.
The book provides a comprehensive view of instruction from a theoretical, systemic, and classroom perspective. The authors’ diverse expertise delivers a wide range of ideas and strategies.
This volume aims to compile a rich collection of research-based contributions, providing a state-of-the-art resource on what we know about this topic today.
These two perspectives are rarely addressed in a single volume. In this book, well-known theorists and researchers present a range of perspectives on how to promote excellence in education.
Topics of table of contents: Defining Excellence; School Reformation Studies; Restructuring; Modernization; the Principal; the Superintendent; School Boards; Teachers; Curriculum; Performance standards and goals; etc.
Drawing from his own remarkable experience as a veteran classroom teacher (still in the classroom), Ron Berger gives us a vision of educational reform that transcends standards, curriculum, and...
The Recommendations of the National Commission on Excellence in Education: Reviewing the State Response