From planning to action : : government intiatives for improving school-level practice / edited by David W. Chapman, Lars O. Mahlck, Anna E. M. Smulders ; International Institute for Educational Planning

Contents:
Pt. 1. Introduction
Ch. 1. Changing what happens in schools: central- level Initiatives to improve school practice
Ch. 2. Knowledge utilization and the process of policy formation: towards a framework for action
Pt. 2. Learning from country experiences
Ch. 3. Information and the reform of initial teaching education in Papua New Guinea: Strategies, challenges and results
Ch. 4. Bottom-up and top-down strategies for improving classroom instruction, case studies from korea
Ch. 5. Multi-grade schooling in the Philippines, a strategy for improving access to and quality of primary education
Ch. 6. A national strategy for systems-wide curriculum improvement in Trinidad and Tobago
Ch. 7. Changing schools though participatory knowledge management in El Salvador: Can education systems learn
Ch. 8. Linking school change to community participation social forestry: a guided innovation in Thailand
Pt. 3. Using information systems to improve practice - lessons from experience
Ch. 9. Sustainable EMIS: who is accountable?
Ch. 10. Information for improving school practice: three Indonesian cases and conceptual model
Ch. 11. Decentralizing national education data to support local use: the Jordanian experience
Pt. 4. Summery and recommendations
Ch. 12. Improving school practice: towards multi-level planning, monitoring and support
 
Includes bibliographical references