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Transforming Northicote School : the reality of school improvement

Title
Transforming Northicote School : the reality of school improvement / Geoff Hampton, Jeff Jones.
Author
Hampton, Geoff, 1952-
Publication
London ; New York : Routledge/Falmer, 2000.

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Additional Authors
Jones, Jeff, 1950-
Description
viii, 151 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
Summary
This volume is an account of how the first school in the country to be classified as failing became a success story for pupils and teachers alike and how the rhetoric of school improvement became a reality for Northicote School.
Subject
  • Northicote School (Wolverhampton, England) > Administration
  • Northicote School (Wolverhampton, England)
  • School improvement programs > England > Wolverhampton
  • Education, Secondary > Standards > Great Britain
  • Education, Secondary > Standards
  • Management
  • School improvement programs
  • Qualitätssteigerung
  • Schule
  • England > Wolverhampton
  • Great Britain
  • Wolverhampton
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Confronting failure -- Key issues and key initiatives -- Charting the way ahead -- Sanctions and rewards -- The academic curriculum -- Beyond the academic -- Staff structures and staff development -- Environment and ethos -- The role of the governors -- From failure to success -- The role of the head -- Reflections -- A diary of The Northicote School -- OFSTED criteria for identifying schools requiring special measures.
ISBN
  • 0415220920
  • 9780415220927
  • 0203133404
  • 9780203133408
LCCN
00059245
OCLC
  • ocm44676039
  • 44676039
  • SCSB-1213495
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library