Research Summaries Database

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Title	Author	Category	Publisher
Plan A+: unleashing the potential of academies March 2012	Dale Bassett, Gareth Lyon, Will Tanner and Bill Watkin	Education theory	Reform and SSAT
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)
How to turn around a failing school: lessons from 160 academies March 2016	Dr Alex Hill and Dr Terry Hill et al.	Education policy Leadership and governance Performance and accountability +3 more	Centre for High Performance
Metrics, practice, and implications: lessons from academy schools in the UK April 2016	Dr Alex Hill, Dr Benjamin Laker, Richard Cuthbertson and Terry Hill	Leadership and governance System improvement and collaboration View all	Said Business School
Selective comprehensives 2017: admissions to high-attaining non-selective schools for disadvantaged pupils March 2017	Carl Cullinane, Jude Hillary, Joana Andrade and Stephen McNamara	Education research Social mobility / closing the gap Supporting social mobility +2 more	Sutton Trust
The performance of partially selective schools in England March 2016	Karen Wespieser, Claudia Sumner, Jennifer Garry, Daniele Bernardinelli and Louis Coiffait	Education policy Education research Performance and accountability +4 more	National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER)
The ins and outs of selective secondary schools: a debate March 2015	Dr. Sarah Jenkins	Education theory	Civitas