Abstract
The "Hong Kong Accelerated Schools Project" has been initiated with the support from the Quality Education Fund since 1998. Whether it could be successfully implemented might be too early to be criticized. But before evaluating its effectivene ss as a borrowing concept from the west, it is necessary to investigate how far this original school design approach has been initiated in the States and what we could perceive about the new idea from both a leadership and cultural perspectives with refer ence to some relevant literatures. This essay briefly describes the main tenets of the American school design of "Accelerated Schools". Then the approach is critically discussed from both a leadership and cultural perspectives to see if the approach can w ork in Hong Kong schools. A short conclusion is drawn to sum up the analysis.
| Keywords: | school reform; Accelerated Schools Project; practicality |
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