No Quick Fixes Book

	Acknowledgments
	Glossary
1	No Quick Fixes: An Introduction	1
Pt. 1	Policy	15
2	The Dark Side of the Moon: Imagining an End to Failure in Urban Education	17
3	No Slow Fixes Either: How Failing Schools in England are Being Restored to Health	34
Pt. 2	LEAs	45
4	Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea? Implications for School and LEA Development Following an Accelerated Inspection Programme	47
5	Rising From the Ashes	64
Pt. 3	Schools	85
6	Highbury Grove - From Deconstruction to Reconstruction	86
7	Turning Around a Struggling School: A Case Study	96
8	Failing the Failures: The Conflict Between Care and the Curriculum	107
Pt. 4	External Facilitators	117
9	'I Didn't Know He Was Ill': The Role and Value of the Critical Friends	118
10	'A Trouble-shooter Calls': The Role of the Independent Consultant	133
Pt. 5	Conceptual Issues	145
11	What's Wrong With Our Schools? Understanding 'Ineffective' and 'Failing' Schools	147
12	The Study and Remediation of Ineffective Schools: Some Further Reflections	163
13	Who's Failing?	175
14	The Cruising School: The Unidentified Ineffective School	189
Pt. 6	International Perspectives	207
15	An Anatomy of Ineffectiveness	209
16	Combating Failure at School: An International Perspective	222
	Notes on Contributors	242
	Index	247