School Improvement Measures – Academic Research, Practical Interventions, Failing, Succeeding

Abstract

The Ramsgate School was a struggling school for a long time. Once local financial management of schools and publicising results in league table form were introduced then the inequalities between schools increased. This was the situation The Ramsgate School faced from 1994. Always classed as a difficult school, it became more so once the marketisation of schools became more explicitly established, though it was always there in Thanet’s eleven secondary schools.