Introduction: School Effectiveness for Whom?

School Effectiveness for Whom?: Challenges to the School Effectiveness and School Improvement Movements

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 1-9

  Slee, Roger ^a   Weiner, Gaby ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b LONDON SOUTH BANK UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203209257-2     Document Type: Chapter

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