This literature review aims to understand the factors that influence the adoption of school
leadership policy reforms and whether there are some common trends that lead to policy …

Although it is widely believed by parents and policy makers that the quality of school
leadership makes a difference to what students learn at school, testing this hypothesis has …

We collect data on management practices in over 1,800 high schools in eight countries. We
show that higher management quality is strongly associated with better educational …

We exploit rules of class formation to identify the causal effect of increasing the number of
immigrants in a classroom on natives' test scores, kee** class size and quality of the two …

The aim of the paper is to identify which among the aspects that relate to the composition of
the student body, school (district) size, management practices and the school principals' own …

This study investigates the existence of various leadership types in a sample of lower
secondary school principals across Italy (n= 1073). Information is obtained using a …

This article reviews the literature and explores the institutional and systemic factors that help
and/or hinder change and innovation across school systems, with a focus on evidence from …

Why do some students learn more in some schools than others? One consideration
receiving growing attention is school management. To study this, researchers need to be …

The purpose of the current study was to examine primary and middle school principals'
evaluations of their own instructional leadership behaviours, and thereby pay closer …

Purpose This research investigates the impact of managerial practices implemented by
Italian school principals on students' outcomes, using micro-data provided by the National …