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Innovation and change are phenomenons any time. Within the scope of the Theory and Prac- tice of School Management module, the theses deals with management of a specific change, namely introduction of school uniforms into practice. The theoretical part of the thesis is based on relevant specialized literature on school management, marketing strategy, school culture and change management. It is completed with available foreign experience and con- clusions of surveys and research of media image, which is playing an important role in respect with the issue. The practical part, i.e. research, provides information and data obtained by the author from interviews with management of schools currently introducing school uniforms. The research results show that the original expectations have not been met in any of the pro- jects included. Understanding the cause of this failure, or else, partial success of the projects, constitutes an important part of the information summary designed for school headmasters considering introduction of school uniforms. The generalized research findings combined with theoretical knowledge imply a set of key recommendations introduced in the thesis con- clusion.

[pt] Desde a década de 1970, os estudos sobre eficácia escolar voltaram seu olhar para dentro da escola com a intenção de conhecer e compreender as características escolares que interferem no desempenho acadêmico dos alunos. As pesquisas começaram a encontrar um conjunto de fatores que influenciam na aprendizagem, fazendo com que os alunos tenham um resultado acadêmico melhor do que o esperado. Ou seja, são escolas que possuem um conjunto de características que fazem com que os estudantes tenham bons resultados nas avaliações educacionais. Partindo da literatura brasileira sobre eficácia escolar segundo a qual tanto os recursos escolares como a organização e gestão da escola importam no desempenho dos alunos, esta pesquisa investiga a distribuição das características escolares relativas à infraestrutura e à gestão pedagógica das escolas, bem como analisa o impacto dessas características na proficiência dos alunos participantes do Projeto Geres, ao longo do primeiro segmento do ensino fundamental, nas disciplinas de Matemática e Leitura. Este estudo verificou que a distribuição das características escolares é muito desigual entre as redes de ensino, os municípios e os diferentes níveis socioeconômicos dos alunos. Além disso, os resultados das análises de regressão linear, realizadas a partir dos dados longitudinais do Geres, mostram que certas características das escolas são mais importantes em determinados anos escolares e que seu impacto é maior para Matemática do que para Português (Leitura). / [en] Since the 1970s, studies of school effectiveness began to look into the school with the intent to understand, in any social context, the school characteristics that affect the students academic performance. The research find a set of factors that influence learning, letting students with a better academic results than expected. In other words, schools that have a specific set of characteristics that make the students with good results in educational assessments. From the Brazilian literature on school effectiveness which indicates that both the school resources as well as the school organization and management impacts the student performance, this study investigates the school characteristics on the distribution of infrastructure and pedagogic management of elementary schools, as well as the main factors in students proficiency in the elementary school for math and reading of Project Geres students. We chose to investigate only those students who have proficiency in all tests (waves), because these students were under the same conditions of infrastructure and pedagogic management over the four years of research. The longitudinal design allows us to analyze the data year-by-year. We found that the school characteristic distribution is unequal across school systems, cities and students socioeconomic levels. Moreover, the result shows that some school characteristics are more important at certain school year and its impact is greater for math than reading.