"London Challenge": Lessons and Inspirations of School Reform

Husbands Chris

doi:10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5560.2015.03.008

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Husbands Chris. 'London Challenge': Lessons and Inspirations of School Reform[J]. Journal of East China Normal University (Educational Sciences), 2015, 33(3): 58-61. doi: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5560.2015.03.008

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Husbands Chris. "London Challenge": Lessons and Inspirations of School Reform[J]. Journal of East China Normal University (Educational Sciences), 2015, 33(3): 58-61. doi: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5560.2015.03.008

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"London Challenge": Lessons and Inspirations of School Reform

doi: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5560.2015.03.008

Husbands Chris

UCL Institute of Education, London

Publish Date: 2015-09-20

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"Within many cities, there are effective classrooms-'beacon'schools and even clusters of such schools-but there are few if any examples of a successful model being expanded to the scope of an entire district". After education reforms such as the global education reform movement, the successful systems of the Pacific Rim and the 'moral drive for improvement', London began to consider and practice the challenging issue: to take school reform to scale, i. e. within the framework of vertical co-operation between national, municipal and local levels and combined with policy interventions for improvement of education reform and development, a set of plans has been taken for comprehensive school improvement to scale. Whether the London Challenge is transferable and could be copied and whether it is sustainable for area-based improvement, only time will tell.
- education reform,
- scale improvement,
- London Challenge,
- sustainability

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