Wylie, Cathy <br/><br/>
Vital connections :  why we need more than self-managing schools / 
Cathy Wylie. 
 - ix, 292 pages ;  25 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-275) and index. 
<br/><br/>High expectations and the support they need -- Semi-ordered freedom -- Strengths, weaknesses and tensions in the 1980s -- Shaking up and separating out -- Fragmented freedom: schools in the 1990s -- Piecemeal changes: teaching and learning in the 1990s -- Trying to 'steer at a distance' -- New frameworks for teaching in primary schools -- New framework fo secondary achievement: gains and challenges -- What self-managing schools need to succeed. 
<br/><br/> "Story of New Zealand school self-management over more than two decades [...] explores the paths taken and the growing tensions of a system that left too much to chance"--Back cover. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1927151570 9781927151570 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>New Zealand. Department of Education.  Tomorrow's schools. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>School management and organization--Evaluation--New Zealand<br/>Education and state--New Zealand<br/>Educational change--Evaluation--New Zealand
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>371.200993