Power, agency and middle leadership in English primary schools

Power, agency and middle leadership in English primary schools

Rethinking middle leadership roles in secondary schools

Pupil composition and accountability: An analysis in English primary schools

This paper examines the role of social class and prior achievement composition effects on pupils’ progress and the judgements made about school performance. It finds that there are small but significant compositional effects on pupil progress raising questions about how pupils can best be allocated to schools. Comparisons between the official contextual value addedmodel and one that includes co...

Development and Validation of a Leadership Inventory for Successful Primary Schools

This research has aimed to develop and validate a leadership inventory for successful primary schools. For this purpose, for the qualitative part of the study, purposive sampling was used, and semi-structured interviews using the theoretical saturation criterion were conducted and later transcribed with 24 successful primary school principals and key teachers in the cities of Tehran and Isfahan...

Strengths and Weaknesses of Educational Equity in English Language Teaching at Iranian and Finnish Primary and Secondary Schools

Considering educational equity in English education as an important issue at schools in this modern time, this study aimed at comparing English education at schools of Iran and Finland from an educational equity point of view. The researcher used a qualitative research method comprising library method of research to do this study. To this end, a lot of up-to-date and useful articles, theses and...