Leading underperforming schools

Like underperforming companies, relationships or governments, the judgments on underperforming schools are often swift and ruthless. Underperforming school chools are frequently polarised as good or bad, and those schools that fail to hit the mark are fair game for media attention and ripe for some sort of public, external intervention. Yet, the whole idea of underperforming schools is so contextually bound, that to group them generically as ‘underperforming’ is meaningless and ultimately, counterproductive. They are far from the same.