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Success Against The Odds - Effective Schools in Disadvantaged Areas (Hardcover)
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Success Against The Odds - Effective Schools in Disadvantaged Areas (Hardcover)
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Success Against the Odds is an exciting book about effective
schools in disadvantaged areas, written for a wide audience. The
findings will be invaluable to headteachers, teachers, governors in
all schools, and will also be of great interest to parents and
indeed all those who are concerned about the future of our schools
and our children.The best-selling report of the National Commission
on Education, Learning to Succeed, published in 1993, achieved
widespread attention, acclaim and influence. Success Against the
Odds will do the same. This powerful new book picks up one of the
key themes of its predecessor, namely how schools in disadvantaged
areas can not only be particularly effective but can continue to
improve.A dozen teams have undertaken to investigate a school which
can be described as `succeeding against the odds'. Each team
includes: a leading educationalist, providing knowledge about
effective teaching and learning and expertise in school
improvement; someone from the business world, offering a fresh
insight into the successful management of the school as an
organisation, and its interaction with the world of work; someone
working in the regeneration of deprived areas, providing a
perspective that places education not in isolation, but as an
interdependent part of the life of a local communityThe teams have
visited a range of successful schools in disadvantaged areas to
identify and analyse the key features of their effectiveness, or of
their improvement. The schools between them cover a broad spectrum:
primary, secondary and special; inner city, town and rural; local
education authority maintained, voluntary and grant-maintained.
What all the schools have in common is proven experience of
overcoming difficult circumstances.In the case of each school,
in-depth investigations of the life and work of the school have
taken place, and the teams have attempted to explain the success of
these schools. Some are d
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Imprint: |
Routledge
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
June 2017 |
First published: |
1996 |
Authors: |
Paul Hamlyn
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Dimensions: |
198 x 129mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
396 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-138-42104-2 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Education >
General
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LSN: |
1-138-42104-9 |
Barcode: |
9781138421042 |
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