Professional Cultures, Improvement Efforts and Effectiveness : Findings from a Study of Three High Schools / Gretchen B. Rossman and Others.

This report summarizes a study that explored the relationships between efforts to improve schools, the definitions of effectiveness or success which drive those efforts, and how these are affected by the inner life, or cultures, of the schools. Three improving high schools were studied in an attempt...

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Main Author: Rossman, Gretchen B.
Corporate Author: Research for Better Schools, inc
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1985.
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Physical Description:163 pages
Format: Microfilm Book

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