This book reviews of the development, implementation and practice of the disciplines of school effectiveness and school improvement. Seven main topics are addressed: History of the school effectiveness movement over the last 25 years; Changes in accountability and standards; Leadership in school effectiveness; Changes in teacher education; Impact of Diverse Populations; Education Funding and its Impact; and Best Practice Case Studies. The contributors are active in school effectiveness research worldwide.

Zusammenfassung
This book celebrates twenty years of the International Congress for School Effecti- ness and Improvement. According to Judith Chapman's report in the first issue of the Australian Network News (1989, p. 1): The initiative for ICES was taken by Dale Mann, former Chairperson (197685) of the Department of Educational Administration, Teachers'College, Columbia University, who served as the first Chairperson (198485) for the National Council for Effective Schools in the United States . . . [who] felt it timely to bring policy-makers, researchers and planners together. By mid-1987 eight countries, the USA, England, Wales, Scotland, Australia, Sweden, Canada and South Africa had shown sufficient interest for an international congress to be conducted in late 1987 or early 1988. The planning group at Columbia was int- ested in a Congress in two parts: (1) a conference on school effectiveness open to all with an interest and with papers presented in the normal fashion for such events, and (2) a decision-making meeting at which the organization would be formally cons- tuted and decisions made. (Chapman, 1989, p. 1) In January 1988, the first Congress was held at the University of London. Policy makers, practitioners and scholars from 14 countries, including the initial 8, together with Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, the Netherlands and Norway, attended the Congress and adopted the name International Congress for School Effectiveness.

Inhalt

A Review of the Progress.- 20 Years of ICSEI: The Impact of School Effectiveness and School Improvement on School Reform.- Four Decades of Body-Surfing the Breakers of School Reform: Just Waving, Not Drowning.- Generic and Differentiated Models of Educational Effectiveness: Implications for the Improvement of Educational Practice.- Improving School Effectiveness: Retrospective and Prospective.- School Effectiveness Research in Latin America.- "Effective for What; Effective for Whom?" Two Questions SESI Should Not Ignore.- Pursuing the Contextualisation Agenda: Recent Progress and Future Prospects.- A World Showcase: School Effectiveness and Improvement from all Corners.- A History of School Effectiveness and Improvement Research in the USA Focusing on the Past Quarter Century.- History of the School Effectiveness and Improvement Movement in Canada over the Past 25 Years.- School Improvement in Latin America: Innovations over 25 Years (1980-2006).- Growing Together: School Effectiveness and School Improvement in the UK.- Educational Effectiveness and Improvement: The Development of the Field in Mainland Europe.- School Effectiveness and Improvement in Asia: Three Waves, Nine Trends and Challenges.- School Effectiveness and Improvement in Taiwan.- School Effectiveness and Improvement in Mainland China.- The Maturing of a Movement: Tracking Research, Policy and Practice in Australia.- Schooling Reform: Reflections on the New Zealand Experience.- History of the School Effectiveness and Improvement Movement in Africa.- School Autonomy for School Effectiveness and Improvement: The Case of Israel.- Recent Initiatives in School Effectiveness and Improvement: The Case of Turkey.- Recent Initiatives in School Effectiveness and Improvement: The Case of the Islamic Republicof Iran.- Resources, School Effectiveness and Improvement.- The Relationship Between Student Attainment and School Resources.- Accountability, Funding and School Improvement in Canada.- Cost and Financing of Education and Its Impact on Coverage and Quality of Services and Efficiency and Equity in Sub-Saharan African Countries.- Resources and School Effectiveness and Improvement.- Accountability and Diversity, School Effectiveness and Improvement.- School Effectiveness and School Improvement (SESI): Links with the International Standards/Accountability Agenda.- Evolution of School Performance Research in the USA: From School Effectiveness to School Accountability and Back.- Education Decentralisation and Accountability Relationships in Latin American and the Caribbean Region.- Equity, Efficiency and the Development of South African Schools.- Policy Perspective on School Effectiveness and Improvement at the State Level: The Case of South Australia.- Diverse Populations and School Effectiveness and Improvement in the USA.- Changing Schools Through Strategic Leadership.- School Leadership, School Effectiveness and School Improvement: Democratic and Integrative Leadership.- Leadership and School Reform Factors.- The Emotional Side of School Improvement: A Leadership Perspective.- Leadership and School Effectiveness and Improvement.- Leadership Development for School Effectiveness and Improvement in East Asia.- Changing Teachers and Classrooms for School Improvement.- Teacher Leadership: Barriers and Supports.- The Continuing Professional Development of Teachers: Issues of Coherence, Cohesion and Effectiveness.- The Evolving Role of Teachers in Effective Schools.- Teacher Education and Professional Development for Sustainable School Effectiveness.- School and Teacher Effectiveness: Implications of Findings from Evidence-Based Research on Teaching and Teacher Quality.- System Supports for Teacher Learning and School Improvement.- Curriculum Reforms and Instructional Improvement in Asia.- Models of School Improvement.- Effective School Improvement - Ingredients for Success: The Results of an International Comparative Study of Best Practice Case Studies.- Self-Directed Learning as a Key Approach to Effectiveness of Education: A Comparison among Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.- Coming and Going: Educational Policy and Secondary School Strategy in the Context of Poverty - Latin American Case Studies.- The School Review Process: The Case of the British Schools in Latin America.- Inquiry-Based Science Education and Its Impact on School Improvement: The ECBI Program in Chile.- Creating New Schools Using Evidence Based Solutions - A Case Study.- Best Practice in Secondary School Improvement: The Case of Salisbury High School.- Learning from the Past to Reframe the Future.- School Effectiveness and Improvement in the Twenty-First Century: Reframing for the Future.