1st Edition

Restructuring and Quality: Issues for Tomorrow's Schools

Edited By Tony Townsend Copyright 1997

    The restructuring of schools systems across the world has been controversial. Have reforms been driven by a desire to cut educational budgets or the need to improve the quality of educational provision? This book explores the restructuring movement, with a particular emphasis on how decentralisation of power has affected the quality of education. It provides a broad and international picture of educational reform.

    List of illustrations, Notes on contributors, Preface, Acknowledgements, Part I Restructuring for quality in schools, Part II Assuring quality in schools and school systems, Part III The impact of restructuring on schools and school systems, Afterword: problems and possibilities for tomorrow’s schools, Index

    Biography

    Tony Townsend

    'this book is well recommended to anyone interested in a comparative review of what the English-speaking world means when it sets out to restructure schools. The chapters provide a rich range of information on restructuring and the pursuit of quality.' - Australian Journal of Education