Improving Urban Schools: Leadership and Collaboration

by Mel Ainscow and Mel West

The improvement of urban schools is one of the major challenges facing practitioners and policy-makers today. Issues related to poverty create particular difficulties in urban schools, and the emphasis on market-led improvement strategies has tended to add to these challenges. In addition, strategies for 'raising standards', as measured by aggregate test and examination results, can result in marginalisation or exclusion of some groups of learners...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 033521911X
• ISBN13: 9780335219117
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Open University Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.0"