Restructuring and Quality: Issues for Tomorrow's Schools

Contents Section One: Restructuring for Quality in Schools 1. Quality and equality in education: Central issues in the restructuring of education. Barry McGaw, 2. Connecting school effectiveness and school improvement: What have we learnt in the last ten years? David Reynolds and Louise Stoll, 3. Restructuring through school-based management: Insights for improving tomorrow's schools. Joseph Murphy, 4. Autonomy and mutuality: Quality education and self-managing schools. Judith Chapman and David Aspin, Section Two: Assuring Quality in Schools and School Systems 5. Inspection and school improvement in England and Wales: National contexts and local realities. Kathryn Riley and David Rowles, 6. Quality assurance for schools: Case study: New South Wales. Peter Cuttance, 7. Ano te Hutinga o te Harakeke: The Plucking still of the flaxbush: New Zealand's self-managing schools and five impacts from the ongoing restructuring of educational administration. Ken Rae, 8. Underlying the chaos: Factors explaining exemplary US elementary schools and the case for high-reliability schools. Sam Stringfield, Section Three: The Impact of Restructuring on Schools and School Systems 9. Systemic reform: A case study on restructuring one American public high school. Judy Codding, 10. Linking school and teacher development Dean Fink and Louise Stoll, 11. Schools of the Future: A case study in systemic educational development Tony Townsend, Afterword: Problems and possibilities for tomorrow's schools Tony Townsend.