Characteristics of high performing school systems in Ontario : Technical report

Among the many important influences on the improvement of student learning, neither researchers nor policy makers, historically, have awarded districts or school systems much respect. Current preoccupations with large-scale reform (for example, England's Primary Strategies, the U.S. No Child Left Behind legislation, Saskatchewan's SchoolPlus Inititiative, Alberta's province-wide Initiative for School Improvement (AISI), and Ontario's sustained literacy strategy), however, have prompted a rethinking of this neglect.