Excellence in Education: The Making of Great Schools

by Cyril Taylor (Author), Conor Ryan (Contributor), Conor Ryan (Contributor), Cyril Taylor (Author)

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  Paperback
  2006

  $4.19

  A thorough examination of the characteristics` belonging to a high-performing school, this book is written by the Chairman of the Specialist Schools Trust and the education advisor to the Prime Minister, Tony Blair. It draws on numerous case studies of successful schools, as well as showing how previously failing schools have been turned around. Looking at such areas as leadership, staffing, target-setting, discipline and order, curriculum innovation and individual learning, the book offers a blueprint to head teachers and others trying to develop excellent schools.

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  Hardcover
  2004

  $3.25

  Sir Cyril Taylor and Conor Ryan present a thorough examination of the characteristics of a high-performing school. The text draws on numerous case studies of successful schools, as well as showing how previously failing schools have been turned around.

• New

  Paperback
  2006

  $31.72

  A thorough examination of the characteristics` belonging to a high-performing school, this book is written by the Chairman of the Specialist Schools Trust and the education advisor to the Prime Minister, Tony Blair. It draws on numerous case studies of successful schools, as well as showing how previously failing schools have been turned around. Looking at such areas as leadership, staffing, target-setting, discipline and order, curriculum innovation and individual learning, the book offers a blueprint to head teachers and others trying to develop excellent schools.