Overview
- Examines interconnections between standards-based reform, student assessment, and school leadership
- Examines the impact of standards-based reform on school leadership across a range of international contexts
- Highlights challenges school leaders face in various international contexts and the implications for policy and practice
- Discusses key issues for sustainable large-scale reform
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Studies in Educational Leadership (SIEL, volume 16)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Front Matter
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International Perspectives
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Front Matter
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Conclusion
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Back Matter
Keywords
- accountability
- administrators
- assessment
- distributed leadership
- education
- educational leadership
- effectiveness
- instructional leadership
- pedagogical approaches
- quality
- reform policies
- school improvement
- school leaders
- self-evaluation
- student achievement
- student assessment
- sustainable
- systemic reform
- transformational leadership
About this book
“Although standards-based reform emerged in the United States and the United Kingdom, the idea has spread across the world, as an approach to systemic reform. It might appear that there is a world-wide “tsunami” of standards-based reform that will standardize and homogenize the educational system across the globe. This volume makes it very clear, however, that there is no one approach to standards-based reform and countries change – there is a danger in paying attention to its evolution and impact in only one context. That’s what makes this volume so valuable. Louis Volante has drawn together descriptions from a wide range of countries, all involved in large-scale reform and using standards and assessments as part of their process. What becomes very obvious is that the language may be the same but the words reflect different contexts and can represent very different ideals, values, and processes. I’m sure you will find this book as interesting and challenging as I have – a gem that pushes your thinking and does not allow readers to remain neutral.” (Lorna Earl)
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: School Leadership in the Context of Standards-Based Reform
Book Subtitle: International Perspectives
Editors: Louis Volante
Series Title: Studies in Educational Leadership
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4095-2
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-4094-5Published: 17 May 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9276-0Published: 11 June 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-4095-2Published: 16 May 2012
Series ISSN: 1572-3909
Series E-ISSN: 2543-0130
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 264
Topics: Administration, Organization and Leadership, International and Comparative Education, Educational Policy and Politics, Assessment, Testing and Evaluation