Focusing on education as a major area of public policy in England, this book explores a decade of rapid and intensive modernisation and draws out the lessons for those concerned with developing education systems across the globe.   A decade of new labour reform of education -- Labouring to lead -- Accountability for improvement: rhetoric or reality? -- Control and response in primary school teacher's work -- Raising standards: what is the evidence? -- School leaders: meeting the challenges of change -- Remodelling and distributed leadership : the case of the school business manager -- Initial teachers education: a(nother) decade of radical reform -- New provision of schooling -- Networking a more equitable educational future? Rhetorics and realities -- Personalized learning -- "Swing, swing together": multi-agency work in the new children's services -- New labour and breaking the education and poverty link: a conceptual account of its educational policies -- Using research to foster inclusion and equity within the context of new labour education reforms -- Debating new labour education policy -- Reflections on reform: perspectives and challenges

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