How to Turn Around a Failing School

An extensive study of UK schools shows what works.

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Benjamin Laker

by

and

Benjamin Laker

August 05, 2016

To say that school reforms are a contested area is something of an understatement. There are some strongly held opinions in education about what improves a school, such as raising teaching standards and reducing class sizes.

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Alex Hill is a Co-Founder and Director of The Centre for High Performance, an Associate Professor at Kingston University and a Visiting Professor at a number of universities around the world. He previously worked at the University of Oxford and spent ten years in various divisions of the Smiths Group, a large engineering multinational. Twitter: @cfhperformance
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Liz Mellon is the Founder and Chair of the Editorial Board for the Duke Corporate Education journal, Dialogue. She was previously the Indian Regional Managing Director at Duke CE, a Professor of Organisational Behaviour at London Business School and spent twelve years in the Department of Trade and Industry. Twitter: @lizmellonduke
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Jules Goddard is a Fellow of London Business School and formerly Gresham Professor of Commerce at City University.
Benjamin Laker is a professor of leadership at Henley Business School, University of Reading. Follow him on Twitter.

How to Turn Around a Failing School

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