TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wylie,Cathy
TI  - Vital connections: why we need more than self-managing schools 
SN  - 1927151570
U1  - 371.200993 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Wellington, N.Z.
PB  - NZCER Press
KW  - New Zealand
KW  - Department of Education
KW  - Tomorrow's schools
KW  - School management and organization
KW  - Evaluation
KW  - Education and state
KW  - Educational change
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-275) and index; 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
N2  - "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
ER  -