Publisher's Synopsis
An Inaugural Professorial Lecture How might educational research help to strengthen government programmes of school improvement? In his inaugural lecture, Visiting Professor John Gray: reviews the key messages emerging from research on school effectiveness and improvement; assesses its recent contribution to the policy-making process; highlights some of the conflicting evidence emerging on standards and effectiveness from different approaches to the evaluation of school performance; identifies some of the major gaps in our current knowledge about the distribution and causes of under-achievement; outlines the main questions that still need to be researched about how schools improve; and calls for the development of stronger partnerships between policy-makers, practitioners and researchers.
