Enhancing educational excellence, equity and efficiency : evidence from evaluations of systems and schools in change.

Bosker, Roel J., Bert P.M. Creemers & Sam Stringfield (eds.)

ISBN 10: 0792361385 / ISBN 13: 9780792361381

Published by Springer, 1999

About this Item

Dordrecht : Kluwer Academic Publishers, c1999. Hardcover. x,259 pp. Published in collaboration with Interuniversitair Centrum voor Onderwijskundig Onderzoek (ICO). Very good clean copy. Condition : very good copy. ISBN 9780792361381. Keywords : ,

Seller Inventory # 248170

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Enhancing educational excellence, equity and efficiency : evidence from evaluations of systems and schools in change.
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0792361385
• ISBN 13: 9780792361381
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: very good

About this title

Synopsis

Promoting high standards in education while striving for equal opportunities under the budget constraints - these are the new global objectives of education systems.
This book brings together research-based evidence on the effectiveness of major Australian, Dutch, and UK improvement efforts in education at both primary and secondary level, whilst making comparisons with similar US initiatives. The book addresses several major questions in this new environment. Those questions include: how to combat educational disadvantages, how to integrate pupils with special educational needs in regular education, how to implement educational standards initiatives, how to restructure secondary education, how to implement decentralized policy-making, and how to implement a class size reduction initiative? Finally, the authors suggest directions for future research in order to increase our understanding of what works in education and why.

About the Author

Sam Stringfield is a Distinguished University Scholar and Co-Director of the Nystrand Center for Excellence in Education in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Louisville. He is a founding editor of the Journal of Education for Students Placed At Risk (JESPAR), and is currently serving as the acting chair of the Educational and Psychological Counseling Department. His research focuses on designs for improving programs within schools, for improving whole schools, for improving systemic supports for schools serving disadvantaged schools, and international comparisons of school effects.