Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- Introduction: School Effectiveness for Whom? -- Setting the Debates -- The Idols of the Market Place -- Cultures of Blame and Redemption -- When Empowerment Becomes Control: Practitioners' Views of the Effective Schools Movement -- The Tyranny of the International Horse Race -- Theorizing the Debates -- Models of Effective Schools: Limits and Capabilities -- Educational Studies, Policy Entrepreneurship and Social Theory -- School Effects in Postmodern Conditions -- High Reliability Organizations and Liability Students -- The Politics of Recognition -- Experiencing the Impacts of School Effectiveness Research and the School Improvement Movement -- Realizing the Mission: Catholic Approaches to School Effectiveness -- Effective Teachers for Effective Schools -- A Tale of Two Schools in One City: Foxwood and Cross Green -- A Tale of One School in One City: Hackney Downs -- The Utility of Qualitative Research for Influencing Policy and Practice on School Effectiveness -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.