Schools and poverty: Questioning the Effectiveness and Improvement paradigms

Improving Schools

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 273-290

  Wrigley, Terry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

leadership and change management; paradigm; poverty; School Effectiveness; School Improvement

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993790880     PISSN: 13654802     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1365480206072154     Document Type: Article

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