Tables of contents

The changing role of the secondary principal in the United States: An historical perspective

     Rebecca H Goodwin, Michael L Cunnigham, Teresa Eagle

01 

Right-minded teachers: The influence of the socio-political context on the preparation of teachers in British Columbia

     Alastair Glegg

19 

Boundary Crosser: Anne Whitelaw and her leadership role in girls' secondary schooling in England, New Zealand and East Africa

     Kay Morris Matthews

39 

Languages of higher education in contemporary Israel

     Nina G Kheimets and  Alek D Epstein

55 

Establishment of academic standards for early twentieth century Texas high schools: The University of Texas affiliated schools program

     Karon Nicol Le Compte and OL Davis Jnr

71 

Michael Duane after Risinghill: Rise and fall of an educational celebrity

     David Limond

85 

Foreign language education in Sweden from a historical perspective: Status, role and organization

     Beatrice Cabau-Lampa

95 

Shrinking the shadow

Graeme Holmes

02

Coming out on outcomes

Phil Ridden

06

Educational reform in the UK: what can Australians learn?

Tony Bloxham

08

Creating highly motivated teachers

Alan Campbell

14

Making a difference: new roles for learning assistants

Avis Ridgeway

17

Schools and the corporate make-over of education

Rebecca English

21

Avoid the rocky path to change

Dennis Sleigh

25

Developing successful learners of good character

Marcia Lane

29

It's time to throw boys a lifeline

Peter West

32

A youthful indulgence in play

Jennifer Costello

35

Let's have school funding based on educational need

Lynne Allison

37

Reinvigorating teacher professional development

Bart Halford

40

Are you a 'musical principal'?

Pauline Griffiths

44

Learning Communities and the Nature of Teacher Participation in Learning Communities

     Raymond Brown

08 

Action Learning/Action Research: A Teacher-Centred Approach for Self-improving Schools

     Margaret Fletcher

16 

Reflection on Teachers' Professional Learning in a Joint Project

     Patricia Jaksic and Shane Anderson

25 

Improving Spelling Abilities

     Katrina Kreis

35 

Literacies of Internet Research

     Colin Thislethwaite

42 

Effective Teaching Strategies for Indigenous Learners

     Jaclyn Schott

50 

Teacher Learnings from Critical Action Research Project – Literacy Tracking Standards

     Narelle Clarke

58 

Examination standards and the limits of linking

     Paul E Newton

105 

Grade stability in a criterion-referenced grading system: the Swedish example

     Christine Wikstrom

125 

The fallibility of high stakes '11-plus' testing in Northern Ireland

     John Gardner and Pamela Cowan

145 

Large scale diagnostic assessment: comparison of eighth graders' mathematics performance in the United States, Singapore and Israel

     Menucha Birenbaum, Curtis Tatsuoka and Tao Xin

167 

Validation and development of norms for the test for auditory comprehension of language-revised (TACL-R) in Lebanon 

     Karma El Hassan and Rima Jammal

183 

Educational assessment in Danish schools

     Niels Egelund

203