推进基础教育均衡发展的新尝试：英国[连锁学校]的政策与实践

A New Initiative to Promote Balanced Development in Basic Education： Policy and Practice of Chains of Schools in UK

推进基础教育的均衡发展是我国当前和今后一段时期基础教育改革的一项重要任务，而对作为教育系统中[细胞]的基层学校进行改组和改造，构建适应新形势发展的学校组织形式应该成为改革的一个路径。近年来，英国为提升学校的质量和标准，促进基础教育的均衡发展，通过伙伴关系尤其是连锁和联合的形式在发展学校网络方面进行了积极的探索。英国这种对学校组织进行创新进而激发更大的集体变革能量的学校改革之举，值得我们关注、参考和借鉴。

It is one of the most important strategies to promote balanced development in the process of basic education reform in China. In order to establish the innovative school organizations to meet the new demands， among the various alternatives， schools re-structuring and re-culturing seem to be an attemptable one. Recent years， British government has introduced a series of measures to improve the quality and standard for schools through the partnerships especially the form of chains and federations， which are worthy of our attention and reference.