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The Vital Hours: Reflecting on Research on Schools and their Effects

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Twenty one years ago — in 1975 — I went to work with the now famous child psychiatrist Professor Sir Michael Rutter and with Dr Barbara Maughan and Dr Janet Ouston on a new study of secondary schools being planned for later that year. The study was published in 1979 by Open Books in the United Kingdom and Harvard Press in the United States under the title Fifteen Thousand Hours: Secondary Schools and their Effects on Children (Rutter et al., 1979a).

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Mortimore, P. (2005). The Vital Hours: Reflecting on Research on Schools and their Effects. In: Lieberman, A. (eds) The Roots of Educational Change. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4451-8_5

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