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Do schools vary in their outcome? Are some schools better than others? Can such schools improve the life-chances of children from disadvantaged circumstances? Is it possible to explain how different results arise?
School Matters addresses these and other questions and provides unambiguous answers. Schools do vary and they can have powerful effects for the good. In addition it is shown exactly how it is that schools achieve their results. This book is probably the most detailed account of the primary school milieu ever undertaken. The authors traced the fortunes, over a period of four years, of 2000 pupils in 50 randomly selected London primary schools. They examined precisely what went on in these schools and measured the varying effects on the pupils' progress. Each child's progress was monitored repeatedly for both academic and social skills. The resulting wealth of detail gives the clearest possible picture of the factors that make for success in schools. The authors spell out these measures of effectiveness - all within the control of the school - and show the bearing they have on children's progress.
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About the Author:
Dr. Peter Mortimore is Director of the Department of Educational Research at the University of Lancaster; Dr. Pamela Sammons is a Senior Research Officer at the Inner London Education Authority; Louise Stoll is a Research Officer and Effective Schools Consultant, Halton Board of Education, Burlington, Ontario, Canada; David Lewis is a Lecturer in Primary Education at Goldsmith's College; Russel Ecob is a social statistician at Glasgow University.
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"School Matters may well be the most important piece of school effectiveness research since the Coleman report."James W. Guthrie, Director of Policy Analysis for California Education, University of California at Berkeley
"School Matters will provide important input for the major policy reforms that will be emerging in elementary education in the U.S."Henry M. Levin, Director, Center for Educational Research at Stanford University
"School Matters will provide important input for the major policy reforms that will be emerging in elementary education in the U.S."Henry M. Levin, Director, Center for Educational Research at Stanford University
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- PublisherPaul Chapman Educational Publishing
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 185396302X
- ISBN 13 9781853963025
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages320
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