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Three key messages:
The more leaders focus on the core business of improving teaching and learning, the bigger their impact on student outcomes.
The self-managing school model should not be...
| Year published: 2009 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article A series in which we ask a leading researcher to distil three key ideas from their work over the years.
| Year published: 2007 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article School improvement has been the dominant paradigm informing educational policy and practice for a generation. There is no doubt that it has had a significant impact on almost every aspect of...
| Year published: 2006 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article Over forty years of research and experience show that it is the middle school philosophy and approach, rather than grade span or school organisation, which make middle schools educationally effective...
| Year published: 2001 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article There are differences between schools in terms of location, size, growth rates, and characteristics of their student populations. Are any of these characteristics related to the learning and teaching...
| Year published: 1998 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article ‘League Tables’ of schools’ exam results often appear in the press. These do not show how good schools are at adding value - improving their pupils’ earlier knowledge. This British article assists.
| Year published: 1993 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article Does the introduction of a new teaching technique help children learn? Would it be better to reduce class size, get a new teacher, send the children home? New statistical ways of...
| Year published: 1993 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article Parents do look round for the ‘best’ school for their children. Can a school change itself to be the ‘best’? The options for change are limited, and advertising your wares may be more like...
| Year published: 1992 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article What gives your school its personality, its spirit, its own culture? How can you assess school climate, and improve it? With details and case studies this item introduces the next.
| Year published: 1990 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article In a day and age when the credibility of schools and the teachers in them are being questioned, it seems important to analyse carefully some of the factors which seem to promote effective schooling....
| Year published: 1987 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article