Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-162) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Crisis in the classroom; Leadership in transition; Loosening the ties; Test-score Olympics; Top-down reform; Outsourcing the service; Bottom-up renewal; Community education partnerships; Micropolitics of governance; Zero tolerance; Digital divide; Learning to manage knowledge; Tracking innovation; Management for a learning society; Leaders for the twenty-first century; Appendix: National profiles; Bibliography; Index.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This book draws on an OECD survey that sets out to identify innovation and good practice in school management in nine of the world's most industrialised countries. The book describes what is being done to improve educational management among these.
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EBL181861
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Title
School management in transition.
International Standard Book Number
0415282462
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Conservatism, Cross-cultural studies.
Education and state, Cross-cultural studies.
School management and organization-- Political aspects, Cross-cultural studies.
Conservatism.
EDUCATION-- Administration-- General.
Education and state.
School management and organization-- Political aspects.