Research Summaries Database

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Title	Author	Category	Publisher
Effective school partnerships and collaboration for school improvement: a review of the evidence October 2015	Dr Paul Armstrong	Education theory	Department for Education (DfE)
Case studies of effective partnership working to raise attainment at Key Stage 2 July 2015	Professor Daniel Muijs	Education research Inter-school collaboration KS1 +2 more	Oxford Review of Education
Collaborative overreach: why collaboration probably isn’t key to the next phase of school reform October 2015	James Croft	Education research Inter-school collaboration Leadership and governance	Centre for the Study of Market Reform of Education (CMRE)
Un/Satisfactory? Enhancing life chances by improving “satisfactory” schools 2011	Dr Becky Francis	Education theory	Royal Society of Arts (RSA)
Chain effects: the impact of academy chains on low income students (second report) July 2015	Dr Phillip Kirby, Professor Becky Francis and Professor Merryn Hutchings	Education theory	Sutton Trust
To the next level: improving secondary teaching to outstanding 2013	Peter Daw and Professor Carol Robinson	Education theory View all	Education Development Trust (formerly CfBT Education Trust)
Academies and free schools 2015	Education Select Committee	Education theory	House of Commons - Hansard
Effective Teaching August 2013	Doctor James Ko, Professor Pamela Sammons	Teaching/classroom practice	Education Development Trust
Academies and maintained schools: oversight and intervention October 2014	National Audit Office (NAO)	Education theory	National Audit Office (NAO)
Plan A+: unleashing the potential of academies March 2012	Dale Bassett, Gareth Lyon, Will Tanner and Bill Watkin	Education theory	Reform and SSAT
Interesting cities: five approaches to urban school reform November 2015	CfBT Education Trust / Education Development Trust (EDT)	Education theory	Education Development Trust (formerly CfBT Education Trust)
Unleashing greatness: getting the best from an academised system January 2013	Professor Christine Gilbert, Professor Becky Francis, Professor Chris Husbands and Brett Wigdortz	Education theory	Pearson Publishing and Royal Society of Arts (RSA)
Turning around chronically low-performing schools May 2008	Rebecca Herman, Priscilla Dawson	Leadership and governance	The National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, Institute of Education Sciences
Headstrong: 11 lessons of school leadership February 2015	Dame Sally Coates	Education theory	John Catt Educational
Combatting isolation: why coastal schools are failing and how headteachers are turning them around October 2015	Deborah Sutton Craig Avieson, Nadia Paczuska and Phil Humphreys	Education theory	Future Leaders Trust
Leading the way: improving school governance and leadership November 2013	Confederation of British Industry	Education theory	Confederation of British Industry (CBI)
Governance models in schools April 2011	Tami McCrone, Clare Southcott and Nalia George	Education theory	National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER)
Preparing English young people for work and life: an international perspective September 2015	Dr Paul Cappon	Education theory	Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance (SKOPE)
Understanding the improved performance of disadvantaged pupils in London September 2015	Dr Jo Blanden, Ellen Greaves and Professor Paul Gregg	Education theory Social mobility / closing the gap Supporting social mobility	Council for Advancement and Support in Education (CASE) and London School of Economics (LSE)
Lessons from London schools June 2014	Dr Sam Baars, Eleanor Bernardes and Dr Alex Elwick	Education theory	Education Development Trust (formerly CfBT Education Trust) and Centre for London with LKMco