Tuesday, November 28, 2006

The Primary Review web site The Primary Review contains extensive information and invitations to submit evidence. The review clearly locates itself as being 40 years on from Plowden The Plowden Report, Chapter 3 , the last major report on Primary schooling but unlike that report it does not intend to deal with issues of social class and its power to shape school outcomes. It intends to address questions to do with the fashionable issues of 'diversity and inclusion' but not explicitly with social class which even the DfES Has the social class gap narrowed in primary schools? regards as significant.

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All the major reports on Primary schooling in the twentieth century, Plowden included, were prefaced by an account of the historical development of the field. The newly anounced Primary Review which proclaims itself to be, 'the most comprehensive enquiry into English primary education since the Plowden Report of 1967' unaccountably does not propose to do this preferring instead a largely empiricist approach. One possible reason why historical enquiry is to be omitted is to be found here. 'The political discourse has moved on' | Schools special reports | EducationGuardian.co.uk

A large scale review of Primary schooling has been anounced. Primary mover | Schools special reports | EducationGuardian.co.uk