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Cele, Nhlanhla – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2005
The public profiling of schools as "effective schools", based on Grade 12 results, has resulted in a jingoistic race by many public schools to get their names on the "public notice board" of effectiveness recognition. Besides creating a skewed perception of school effectiveness, this public profiling of schools as effective…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Effectiveness, Reputation, Public Schools