Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1 setting the context
Introduction
Alma harris and janet chrispeels 1
Chapter 1 a brief history of school improvement research in the usa
Charles b teddlie and samuel stringfield 27
Part 2 school improvement: phases 2 and 3
Chapter 2 success for all
Robert slavin and nancy a madden 49
Chapter 3 the high reliability schools project: some preliminary results 71
And analyses
David reynolds, samuel stringfield and eugene c schaffer
Chapter 4 using the power of difference in school improvement projects
Paul clarke, mel ainscow and mel west 101
Chapter 5 effective school improvement:: similarities and differences in improvement in
Eight european countries (stoll, creemers, reezigt) 122
Louise stoll, bert p m creemers and gerry reezigt
Part 3 school improvement: phase 4
Chapter 6 changing secondary schools is hard: lessons from 10 years of school improvement
Lorna earl, nancy torrance and stephanie sutherland 143
Chapter 7 building instructional quality:
¿inside-out¿ and ¿outside-in¿ perspectives on san diego¿s school reform
Linda darling-hammond, amy m hightower, jennifer husbands, jeanette r lafors,
Viki m young and carl christopher 169
Chapter 8 standards-based reform and small schools of choice: how reform theories
Converge in three urban middle schools.
Chrysan gallucci, michael s. Knapp, anneke markholt, suzanne ort 240
Chapter 9 education district development in south africa: a new direction for school improvement?
Brahm fleisch 282
Chapter 10
The challenge of systemic change in complex educational systems: a district model to scale up
Reform
Janet chrispeels and margerita gonzales 319
Chapter 11
The creation of knowledge networks: collaborative enquiry for school and system improvement
David jackson 355
Part 4 towards the 5th phase school improvement: future directions for the field
Janet chrispeels and alma harris
Conclusion 382
Biographies 398