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11. Passionate Principalship

    Learning from the Life Histories of School Leaders

    Edited by Ciaran Sugrue

    This book puts 'real life' back into the literature on school principalship. Through a life history approach, it portrays daily life in schools as a much more messy, contested and precarious existence, where principals struggle with passionate commitment to find continuity amongst frequently...

    Published January 25th 2010 by Routledge
12. World Bank Financing of Education

    Lending, Learning and Development, 2nd Edition

    By Phillip W. Jones

    Based on detailed analysis of thousands of confidential World Bank documents, this book demonstrates that the World Bank lies at the centre of the major changes in global education of our time. It outlines the evolution of World Bank lending policies in education, and assesses the policy impact of...

    Published September 6th 2009 by Routledge
13. School Improvement Through Performance Feedback

    Edited by A.J. Visscher, R. Coe

    Series: Contexts of Learning

    Internationally there is an increasing trend to publish and feed back information to schools and teachers on their functioning. School improvement is often the central goal, though accountability and the promotion of parental/student school choice also play an important role.Practical initiatives...

    Published January 31st 2007 by Routledge
14. Managing Schools Towards High Performance

    Edited by A.J. Visscher

    This text aims to connect school organization theory with the school effectiveness knowledge base. Each chapter presents a comprehensive overview of the knowledge base on the central theme and addresses the question of what is known about the subject as a school effectiveness-enhancing condition....

    Published October 26th 2006 by Routledge