Research is increasingly highlighting the influence of school contexts on school processes
and student achievement. This article reviews a range of social justice rationales for taking …

Education plays an essential role in preparing the children of immigrants for participation in
the labour market and society. Giving these children opportunities to fully develop their …

Introduction-The impact of ICT in schools report was commissioned by Becta on behalf of the
Department for Education and Skills (DfES) to analyse the impact of ICT on the schools …

This book, for the first time ever, critically examines the role of full service and extended
schools. The authors draw on their extensive international evaluations of this radical new …

Since the 1990s, a dominant feature of educational policy in Ireland has centred on the
targeting of additional funding and supports towards schools serving disadvantaged …

This is a book about schools on the edge. It is, in part, a story of eight English schools living
on the precarious edge between success and failure, but it is, in larger part, a narrative of …

Although there is widespread agreement that poverty and poor educational outcomes are
related, there are different explanations about why that should be the case. The purpose of …

Although much research has focussed on how various educational policy initiatives have
attempted to improve problems of social exclusion, little research has systematically …

This article is concerned with high stakes testing in England, where system-wide
marketoriented reforms have been introduced into the school-based education system. It …

In England, as in countries across the world, shrinking public funding, growing localism, and
increased school autonomy make tackling the link between education, disadvantage and …