Introduction / Alma Harris and Janet H. Chrispeels A brief history of school improvement research in the USA / Charles B. Teddlie and Samuel Stringfield Success for all : research and reform in reading / Robert E. Slavin and Nancy A. Madden The high reliability schools project : some preliminary results and analyses / David Reynolds, Sam Stringfield, and Eugene C. Schaffer Learning from difference : some reflections on school improvement projects in three countries / Paul Clarke, Mel Ainscow and Mel West Effective school improvement : similarities and differences in improvement in eight European countries / Louise Stoll, Bert P.M. Creemers and Gerry Reezigt Changing secondary schools is hard : lessons from 10 years of school improvement in the Manitoba School Improvement Program / Lorna Earl, Nancy Torrance, and Stephanie Sutherland Building instructional quality : 'inside-out' and 'outside-in' perspectives on San Diego's school reform / Linda Darling-Hammond, Amy M. Hightower, Jennifer L. Husbands, Jeannette R. LaFors, Viki M. Young and Carl Christopher Standards-based reform and small schools of choice : how reform theories converge in three urban middle schools / Chrysan Gallucci, Michael S. Knapp, Anneke Markholt and Suzanne Ort
Education district development in South Africa : a new direction for school improvement? / Brahm Fleisch
The challenge of systemic change in complex educational systems : a district model to scale up reform / Janet H. Chrispeels and Margerita González
The creation of knowledge networks : collaborative enquiry for school and system improvement / David Jackson
Conclusion : future directions for the field / Janet H. Chrispeels and Alma Harris.
