No quick fixes : perspectives on schools in difficulty

The challenge of school improvement for failing schools is a complex and much debated issue. This text attempts to help those working in, or working with, failing schools and aims to contradict the notion that there are no quick fixes for schools in difficulty. The issue of failing schools is looked at from a number of viewpoints. Section one contains policy perspectives; section two contains three schools' perspectives; section three contains chapters written by three external facilitators; section four addresses the issues from three prominant school effectiveness researchers; and section five gives international perspectives from the co-ordinator of the OECD Combating School Failure initiative.

Louise Stoll and Kate MyersMichael BarberMichael StarkRob Watling and David Hopkins and Alma Harris and John BeresfordChristine WhatfordVivien CutlerLinda TurnerSteven PughJohn MacBeathJames Learmonth and Kathy LowersCaroline LodgeDavid ReynoldsKate Myers and Harvey GoldsteinLouise Stoll and Dean FinkSam StringfieldKaren Kovacs

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Glossary	p. viii
1 No Quick Fixes: An Introduction	p. 1
Part 1 Policy	p. 15
2 The Dark Side of the Moon: Imagining an End to Failure in Urban Education	p. 17
3 No Slow Fixes Either: How Failing Schools in England are Being Restored to Health	p. 34
Part 2 LEAs	p. 45
4 Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea? Implications for School and LEA Development Following an Accelerated Inspection Programme	p. 47
5 Rising From the Ashes	p. 64
Part 3 Schools	p. 85
6 Highbury Grove--From Deconstruction to Reconstruction	p. 86
7 Turning Around a Struggling School: A Case Study	p. 96
8 Failing the Failures: The Conflict Between Care and the Curriculum	p. 107
Part 4 External Facilitators	p. 117
9 'I Didn't Know He Was Ill': The Role and Value of the Critical Friend	p. 118
10 'A Trouble-shooter Calls': The Role of the Independent Consultant	p. 133
Part 5 Conceptual Issues	p. 145
11 What's Wrong With Our Schools? Understanding 'Ineffective' and 'Failing' Schools	p. 147
12 The Study and Remediation of Ineffective Schools: Some Further Reflections	p. 163
13 Who's Failing?	p. 175
14 The Cruising School: The Unidentified Ineffective School	p. 189
Part 6 International Perspectives	p. 207
15 An Anatomy of Ineffectiveness	p. 209
16 Combating Failure at School: An International Perspective	p. 222
Notes on Contributors	p. 242
Index	p. 247

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