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Improving Schools provides an international forum for peer-reviewed research that interrogates, reimagines and strengthens school improvement, with particular attention to the organisational and systemic levels of action. The journal positions school improvement as a fundamentally human endeavour and foregrounds the question of what schools are actually for, who they serve and for what purpose. View full journal description

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Improving Schools Call for Editor!

Improving Schools seeks a new Editor/Editorial Team.
Deadline closes 1 September 2025.
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Welcome our new Co-Editor-in-Chiefs

Improving Schools is delighted to welcome its new Co-Editor-in-Chiefs:

Martin Brown, Dublin City University, Ireland
Sedat Gümüs, The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Shelley D. Zion, Rowan University, USA

Meet the Editors at AERA 2026

Meet the Editors - Journal Talks Session 2

Thu, April 9, 9:45 to 11:15am PDT

Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level One, Petree Hall C

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