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1. Rethinking Schools

   Improved Educational Outcomes for All?

   By Christopher Chapman

   Improving educational systems around the world remains at the core of governments’ agendas. However, despite vast investment of resources and sustained periods of interventions many systems have seen their rates of improvement plateau and in some systems the gap between different groups of...

   To Be Published June 14th 2012 by Routledge
2. High-Leverage Leadership

   Improving outcomes in educational settings

   By Denis Mongon, Christopher Chapman

   Globalisation of world trade, international media, technological innovation and social change are creating opportunities and challenges that today’s pupils will inherit and build on. A pupil’s academic, technical and social capacity will define their success or failure. Therefore, educational...

   Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
3. School Effectiveness and Improvement Research, Policy and Practice

   Challenging the orthodoxy?

   Edited by Christopher Chapman, Paul Armstrong, Alma Harris, Daniel Muijs, David Reynolds, Pam Sammons

   This book provides a contemporary overview of school effectiveness and improvement. It charts the development theory and research in this area and looks at the contribution made to policy and practice. It also challenges some assumptions that have become ingrained into the theoretical and...

   Published December 11th 2011 by Routledge
4. Leading School-based Networks

   By Mark Hadfield, Christopher Chapman

   The persistent challenge of achieving excellence and equity within education systems has renewed interest in generating context-specific solutions through localised school networks. But how can successful school networks be developed? Based around the lifecycle of a network, this book&...

   Published March 23rd 2009 by Routledge
5. Radical Reforms

   Perspectives on an era of educational change

   Edited by Christopher Chapman, Helen Gunter

   This book draws on the lessons from one of the most intensive periods of educational reform in any country during recent times. The post-1997 English experience, under a New Labour government, is used to illustrate the opportunities and challenges associated with attempting to develop a world class...

   Published December 7th 2008 by Routledge
6. Effective Leadership for School Improvement

   By Alma Harris, Christopher Day, David Hopkins, Mark Hadfield, Andy Hargreaves, Christopher Chapman

   In a complex and multi-layered world, the conventional idea of great leadership being the result of the efforts of a single individual is rapidly becoming redundant. This book takes up the challenge of finding an alternative method of leadership in educational contexts, and looks at how this can...

   Published November 6th 2002 by Routledge