Section 1 A Review of the Progress
1 20 years of ICSEI : The Impact of School Effectiveness and School Improvement on School Reform / Tony Townsend
2 Four Decades of Body-Surfing the Breakers of School Reform Just Waving, Not Drowning / Hedley Beare
3 Generic and Differentiated models of Educational Effectiveness Implications for the Improvement of Educational Practice / Leonidas Kyriakides
4 Improving school effectiveness Retrospective and Prospective / John MacBeath
5 School Effectiveness research in Latin America / Javier Murillo
6 "Effective for What; Effective for Whom?" Two Questions SESI Should Not Ignore / Ira Bogotch, Luis Mirón, Gert Biesta
7 Pursuing the Contextualisation Agenda Recent progress and future prospects / MartinThrupp, Ruth Lupton, and Ceri Brown
Section 2 A World Showcase School Effectiveness and Improvement from All Corners
The Americas
8 A quarter century of school effectiveness and improvement research in the United States / Charles Teddlie and Sam Stringfield
9 History of the school effectiveness and improvement movement in Canada over the past 25 years / Larry Sackney
10 School Improvement in Latin America Innovations over 25 years (1980-2006) / Beatrice Avalos
Europe
11 Growing together School Effectiveness and School Improvement in the UK / Louise Stoll and Pam Sammons
12 Educational Effectiveness and Improvement The development of the field in mainland Europe / Bert P. M. Creemers
Asia and the Pacific
13 School Effectiveness and Improvement in Asia Three Waves, Nine Trends and Challenges / Yin Cheong Cheng and Wai-ming Tam
14 School effectiveness and improvement in Taiwan / Hui-Ling Pan
15 School effectiveness and improvement in Mainland China / Daming Feng
16 The Maturing of a Movement Tracking Research, Policy and Practice in Australia / Brian Caldwell
17 Schooling Reform Reflections on the New Zealand Experience / Howard Fancy
Africa and The Middle East
18 History of the school effectiveness and improvement movement in Africa / Brahm Fleisch
19 School Autonomy for School Effectiveness and Improvement : The Case of Israel / Ami Volansky
20 Recent Initiatives in School Effectiveness and Improvement : The Case of Turkey / Ismail Guven
21 Recent Initiatives in School Effectiveness and Improvement : The Case of the Islamic Republic of Iran / Azam Azimi
Section 3 Resources, School Effectiveness and Improvement
22 The relationship between student attainment and school resources, Rosalind Levac̆ić
23 Accountability, funding and school improvement in Canada / Charles Ungerleider and Ben Levin
24 Cost and financing of education and its impact on coverage and quality of services and efficiency and equity in Sub-Saharan African Countries / Alain Mingat
25 Resources and School Effectiveness and Improvement / Jim Spinks


Section 4 Accountability and Diversity, School Effectiveness and Improvement
26 School effectiveness, school improvement and the accountability and standards agenda - a European Survey / David Reynolds
27 Evolution of school performance research in the USA From school effectiveness to school accountability and back / Susan Kochan
28 Education decentralisation and accountability relationships in Latin American and the Caribbean Region / Emanuela di Gropello
29 Equity, Efficiency and the Development of South African Schools / Nick Taylor
30 Policy Perspective on School Effectiveness and Improvement at the State Level : The Case of South Australia / Steve Marshall
31 Diverse populations and school effectiveness and improvement in the USA / Sue Lasky et al.
Section 5 Changing Schools Through Strategic Leadership
32 School Leadership, School Effectiveness and School Improvement Democratic and Integrative Leadership / Lejf Moos and Stephan Huber
33 Leadership and School Reform Factors / Robert J. Marzano
34 The Emotional Side of School Improvement A Leadership Perspective / Kenneth Leithwood
35 Leadership and School Effectiveness and Improvement / Halia Silins and BBill Mulford
36 Leadership Development for School Effectiveness and Improvement in East Asia / Allan Walker et al
Section 6 Changing Teachers and Classrooms for School Improvement
37 Teacher Leadership Barriers and Supports / Joseph Murphy
38 The Continuing Professional Development of Teachers Issues of coherence, cohesion and effectiveness / Chris Day and Ruth Leitch
39 The evolving role of teachers in effective schools / Eugene Schaffer et al.
40 Teacher education and professional development for sustainable school effectiveness / Wai-ming Tam and Yin Cheong Cheng
41 School and Teacher Effectiveness Implications of Findings from Evidence-based Research on Teaching and Teacher Quality / Kerry Rowe
42 System Supports for Teacher Learning and School Improvement / Janet H. Chrispeels, Carrie A. Andrews with Margarita González
43 Curriculum reforms and instructional improvement in Asia / Kerry Kennedy
Section 7 Models of School Improvement
44 Effective School Improvement - Ingredients for Success The Results of an International Comparative Study of Best Practice Case Studies / Bert P. M. Creemers et al
45 Self-directed learning as a key approach to effectiveness of education A comparison among Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan / Magdalena Mo Ching Mok and Yin Cheong Cheng et al
46 Coming and going Educational policy and secondary school strategy in the context of poverty - Latin American case studies / Claudia Jacinto and Ada Freytes
47 The School Review process the case of the British schools in Latin America / David Bamford
48 Inquiry-based science education and its impact on school improvement The ECBI program in Chile / Rosa Devés and Patricia López
49 Creating new schools using evidence based solutions - a Case Study / Jenny Lewis
50 Best Practice in Secondary Schools The Case of Salisbury High School / Helen Paphitis
Afterword Learning from the Past to Reframe the Future
51 School Effectiveness and Improvement in the 21st Century Reframing for the future / Tony Townsend.