• Foreword - John GrayPreface - Michael BarberIntroductionThe Study of Academic Departmental Differences in Effectiveness PART ONE: MEASURING SCHOOL EFFECTIVENESSBHow Can We Measure School Effectiveness?Differences in Academic EffectivenessBPART TWO: EXPLAINING DIFFERENCES IN EFFECTIVENESSCase Studies of More and Less Effective Schools and DepartmentsPractitioners’ Views of EffectivenessUnderstanding Academic EffectivenessPART THREE: THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS Towards a Model of Academic Effectiveness in SchoolsImplications for School ImprovementLast Words

`This book is a very useful text for anyone studying comparative education systems as well as those who seek to understand more fully the complexities and frustrations that lie beneath the underuse of the leadership skills and talents of women in schools, colleges and higher education in a number of European contexts: England and Wales, France, The Federal Republic of Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway and Spain′ - School Leadership & Management`There are few books of which one can say ′all secondary teachers and governors should read this book′ but this is one of them. I would recommend it to primary colleagues too....Its messages about school effectiveness can uniquely be applied to school improvement because there is data about how the same children fared under different regimes in different subject areas in the same school′ - School Leadership & Management

• Foreword - John GrayPreface - Michael BarberIntroductionThe Study of Academic Departmental Differences in Effectiveness PART ONE: MEASURING SCHOOL EFFECTIVENESSBHow Can We Measure School Effectiveness?Differences in Academic EffectivenessBPART TWO: EXPLAINING DIFFERENCES IN EFFECTIVENESSCase Studies of More and Less Effective Schools and DepartmentsPractitioners’ Views of EffectivenessUnderstanding Academic EffectivenessPART THREE: THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS Towards a Model of Academic Effectiveness in SchoolsImplications for School ImprovementLast Words

`This book is a very useful text for anyone studying comparative education systems as well as those who seek to understand more fully the complexities and frustrations that lie beneath the underuse of the leadership skills and talents of women in schools, colleges and higher education in a number of European contexts: England and Wales, France, The Federal Republic of Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway and Spain′ - School Leadership & Management`There are few books of which one can say ′all secondary teachers and governors should read this book′ but this is one of them. I would recommend it to primary colleagues too....Its messages about school effectiveness can uniquely be applied to school improvement because there is data about how the same children fared under different regimes in different subject areas in the same school′ - School Leadership & Management

• Foreword - John GrayPreface - Michael BarberIntroductionThe Study of Academic Departmental Differences in Effectiveness PART ONE: MEASURING SCHOOL EFFECTIVENESSBHow Can We Measure School Effectiveness?Differences in Academic EffectivenessBPART TWO: EXPLAINING DIFFERENCES IN EFFECTIVENESSCase Studies of More and Less Effective Schools and DepartmentsPractitioners’ Views of EffectivenessUnderstanding Academic EffectivenessPART THREE: THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS Towards a Model of Academic Effectiveness in SchoolsImplications for School ImprovementLast Words

`This book is a very useful text for anyone studying comparative education systems as well as those who seek to understand more fully the complexities and frustrations that lie beneath the underuse of the leadership skills and talents of women in schools, colleges and higher education in a number of European contexts: England and Wales, France, The Federal Republic of Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway and Spain′ - School Leadership & Management`There are few books of which one can say ′all secondary teachers and governors should read this book′ but this is one of them. I would recommend it to primary colleagues too....Its messages about school effectiveness can uniquely be applied to school improvement because there is data about how the same children fared under different regimes in different subject areas in the same school′ - School Leadership & Management