tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36306002012-02-01T07:30:10.181ZItems relating to education policy making and policy implementation.Kevin J. Brehonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07452609884286774912noreply@blogger.comBlogger1821100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3630600.post-33524849154015379712009-10-20T09:06:00.000Z2009-10-20T09:06:07.087Z

Tory Shadow School Secretary rejects principal proposals of Cambridge Primary Review. Tories set out their plans for primary education | Education | The Guardian

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A predictable response from New Labour highlights the disconnect that some times exists between rationality and polits/policy. Devastating criticism of primary education dismissed by ministers | Education | The Guardian

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The Cambridge Primary Review has arrived! The Cambridge primary review's key findings | Education | The Guardian

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National Audit Office claims there is no evidence that performativity works. BBC NEWS | Education | 'No evidence' exam targets work

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New Labour's testing policy exposed. Jenni Russell: Balls' test answer? More of the futile, top-down plans that Labour loves | Comment is free | The Guardian

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Causes of low educational attainment rediscovered - again! BBC NEWS | Education | Who are the low-achieving pupils?

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Social class inequalities in schooling are related to access to the networks based in private schools. Networked from birth | Schools special reports | EducationGuardian.co.uk

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It's back to the future with the Tories as they revive the Black Paper's tired charge of progressive domination in the class room. Children being failed by progressive teaching, say Tories | News crumb | EducationGuardian.co.uk

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Leading privatisation advocate demoted. BBC NEWS | UK | Education | Outspoken school adviser ousted

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Personalised services live on in spite of confusion as to what personalisation means BBC NEWS | Politics | Reforms 'to go wider and deeper'

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Evidence based policy bites New Labour back as criticisms mount. Guardian Unlimited | Comment is free | Ten years of bold education boasts now look sadly hollow

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Lancaster study finds specialist schools favour the better-off. 'Failing' school reforms put Labour under pressure | Schools special reports | EducationGuardian.co.uk

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Academy Schools: First announce the expansion of the programme then call for its evaluation. Shouldn't that be the other way round? Minister orders academy schools probe | UK Latest | Guardian Unlimited

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Little performance gain from specialist school status. BBC NEWS | Education | Specialist schools 'not better'

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When Boston said, "the traditional approach to covering the syllabus has been exhausted" this does indeed signal a victory for child-centred education, not because the 'progressives' won the argument
- anyone would be hard pressed to identify them these days anyway - but because a
lot of pupils were turned off the 'traditional approach'. For many - about
25-30%, the same proportion more or less

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Freeing the secondary curriculum while continuing to dictate it through assessment - a performative contradiction? School curriculum changes receive mixed response from teachers | News crumb | EducationGuardian.co.uk

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Ofsted criticised Ofsted is bloated and bureaucratic, say MPs | News crumb | EducationGuardian.co.uk

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It's the income distribution not the schools, stupid. BBC NEWS | UK | Education 'fails poorer children'

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So much for those who have claimed to have discerned a difference between Blair and Brown. This report seems to give evidence that Brown is even more prepared than his predecessor to subordinate the needs of pupils to the demands of capital. BBC NEWS | Politics | Brown plans 'world class' schools

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More opposition to the testing regime has emerged. It is increasingly looking like the campaign against payment by results in the nineteenth century. BBC NEWS | Education | Call to scrap tests for under-16s

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A somewhat belated reaction from the NAHT but another sign that resistance is growing to the current assessment regime BBC NEWS | Education | Tests 'reduce pupils to widgets'

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The newly produced key stage 2 league tables of Local Education Authorities displays a remarkable similarity to previous years and corresponds to the distribution of social class in England.

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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

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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

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

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As reproduction theories maintain, schooling reinforces social disadvantage rather than reduce it. This evidence seems to confirm this view.BBC NEWS | Education | Poor 'half as likely to succeed'

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Schools and teacher expectations to blame for the standards agenda failure never class and racial inequalities and never poverty. Primary pupils 'let down by system' | UK Latest | Guardian Unlimited

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The parallels between what teachers have said in this ATL survey with the NUT's attack on the Elementary School Code in the 1890s are uncanny. Maybe history does repeat itself after all. BBC NEWS | Education | 'Free up curriculum' teachers say

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Back to the future!- regular testing and large classes proposed Test primary school children every eight weeks' - think-tank

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NUT debate play in school and express concern over what used in the 1920s to be called 'dilution' - the employment of untrained staff. After a long struggle, untrained staff were no longer employed in schools by the 1980s. New Labour however, has turned the clock back and as previously, untrained staff are felt particularly suitable in early years. BBC NEWS | Education | Teachers want play-based

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Freedom for schools to teach what they want! Now that's a novel idea from the Liberal Democrats. EducationGuardian.co.uk | Schools special reports | Playing the name game

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An OECD call to subordinate European schooling more effectively to the needs of Capital. As always this is put in the context of an international Darwinian struggle for the survival of the fittest. Somehow It is always done better in 'other' countries; a line of argument used at least since the 1880s. Moreover, if schooling is too bound up with social class divisions, shouldn't the first

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Sir Cyril Taylor advocates a two tier system specialist schools/non-specialist schools. No need then to bring back grammar and secondary modern schools . Guardian Unlimited | UK Latest | Funding target warning for schools

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This is a very perceptive piece from the BBC's education correspondent, Mike Baker. Here he dissects the Government's White Paper proposalsBBC NEWS | Education | How do you create a good school?

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Audit Commission report criticises White Paper - on the grounds it threatens efficiency and value for money EducationGuardian.co.uk | Schools special reports | Watchdog savages education white paper

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Guardian Unlimited | UK Latest | Firms to take over failing colleges Hope they do better than with the City Academies.

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Blair accuses local authorities' embrace of 'child-centred learning' for their failure to 'raise expectations and meet basic standards'. He then promises a new system of schools 'driven,' in part, 'above all by the needs of pupils'. He also claimed that recent reforms have helped to 'deliver a more personalised education for young people'. Attention to the needs of pupils and personalised

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Predictably, schools play the game as organisations did under the Soviet five year plansBBC NEWS | Education | Tables 'hide key subject decline'

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More hints from Ruth Kelly at a return to selection, streaming and differentiation. BBC NEWS | Education | Lecturers to teach bright pupils

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teacher training places cut. EducationGuardian.co.uk | Special Reports | Government cuts teacher training places

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Press release by US based, Alliance for Childhood for their report Tech Tonic which is critical of the use of ICT in schools. The full report is available from the site. Alliance for Childhood - Computers and Children

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Scepticism about interactive whiteboards and other forms of ICT EducationGuardian.co.uk | E-learning | Chalk one up to the whiteboard

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More evidence of social selection but there is a regrettable lack of an historical perspective here. "We have replaced an education system which selected on ability with one that is socially selective" says Sir Peter Lampl but he does not indicate when this meritocracy existed. Schools have always been socially selective: that is one of the reasons they exist at all and success in school is

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Press reaction to the Ofsted report is 'targets missed'. Guardian Unlimited | UK Latest | Action urged on reading and writing

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Ofsted's report on the teaching of English is obtainable here. It claims, 'there is scope, now that teaching is more secure and consistent, for more imagination, creativity and flexibility'. No consideration is given to the possibility that these qualities are constrained by the adherence to 'standards'.

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Why not ask for suggestions for the name of yet another rung in the teaching work force hierarchy? Maybe 'superlative' would be appropriate. BBC NEWS | Education | Search for 'excellent teachers'

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"Few now question the role of higher education in driving both economic competitiveness and social inclusion" says Howard Newby but increasingly many do just that. EducationGuardian.co.uk | comment | Autumnal points:

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Does anyone watch this patronising Stalinist rubbish? Why teachers tv and not dustpersons or policepersons tv? Doesn't anyone think junk bond sellers need tv too? Why is the University of Bristol involved in this? Does the Institute of Education in London need money so much as to get involved in this nonsense. How did that fine reporter and presenter Sheena Macdonald take this on? It reminds me

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First evaluation of Sure Start reveals no overall improvement EducationGuardian.co.uk | Schools special reports | Doubts over value of ?3bn Sure Start

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More targets missed as Tories blame the teachers. What ever happened to social class? EducationGuardian.co.uk | News crumb | Tests show gender gap widening at primary school

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More criticism of government claims regarding primary school standards EducationGuardian.co.uk | Schools special reports | Teachers warn primary school standards success overstated

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A journalist's take on Steiner and Montessori - at least an alternative means of education is being discussedEducationGuardian.co.uk | News crumb | Explainer: Steiner schools

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Private companies to award degrees. 'competition provides quality benchmarks for the public sector' Like enron perhaps?.Education news & jobs at the Times Higher Education Supplement

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An interesting way of presenting the report on Steiner schools but a turn to progressive education is highly unlikely. UK Education News & Teaching News - TES - The Times Educational Supplement 2

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Is this the personalisation of a public service? How can the Romantic movement of which Steiner was a part co-operate with the centralised bureaucratic, 'rational' system which is State Education? BBC NEWS | Education | Steiner schools 'could help all'

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Evidence based policy? EducationGuardian.co.uk | Schools special reports | Researchers raise more doubts on city academies

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Poly Toynbee on extended schooling. A new twist on Margaret McMillan's desire to get working class children away from the families as long as possible. Guardian Unlimited | Columnists | We need more than just ping pong and sandwiches

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Roy Hattersley questions the evidence for city academies EducationGuardian.co.uk | Schools special reports | And now, over to our sponsors

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New Labour's plans for more diversity in the state school system. In the past, diversity and variety were code words for social class differentiation.EducationGuardian.co.uk | News crumb | Parents will get power to close failing schools

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Adonis is the 'New' in New Labour's education policy but he looks suspiciously like an old Tory. EducationGuardian.co.uk | Schools | The rise of Tony Zoffis

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Adonis appointment opposed EducationGuardian.co.uk | Schools special reports | Dismay and anger at elevation of Adonis

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So 'personalised learning' means streaming. What an original idea. BBC NEWS | Education | School to abolish all year groups

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New report highlights the link between social class and education Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | UK low in social mobility league, says charity

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The view from the academy: Policy suggestions from left-leaning academics in education EducationGuardian.co.uk | Schools special reports | Dear prime minister

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Pat Ainley poses the pertinent question of why the State should pay for training so that private companies can profit from it EducationGuardian.co.uk | eG weekly | Patrick Ainley: 'Skills shortage' suits employers well

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Ruth Kelly argues that diversity in schooling will bring more equality - it hasn't in the past so why should it in the future?EducationGuardian.co.uk | Schools | Beyond Crosland's vision

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That Jamie Oliver is a first class educator as well as a celebrity chef is clear for all to see and the case is argued here by Bethan MarshallIndependent Education

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No evidence base for the academies EducationGuardian.co.uk | Schools special reports | MPs attack academy programme

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A sign perhaps that primary is emerging from under the shadow of the elementary school EducationGuardian.co.uk | News crumb | Primary schools targeted for rebuilding

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Increased funding for childcare and early years EducationGuardian.co.uk | Schools special reports | Chancellor invests in the future

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The children's commissioner is a professor of child health. Is this another instance of the medicalisation of childhood? BBC NEWS | Education | England children's tsar appointed

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Educational success follows selection but not for all EducationGuardian.co.uk | News crumb | Looking out for number one

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Another case of don't frighten the horses - voters? BBC NEWS | UK | Education | A-levels are to stay, says Kelly

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PriceWaterhouseCoopers find academies divisive but weren't they meant to be? EducationGuardian.co.uk | Schools special reports | Academies 'will create two-tier school system'

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Evidence based policy/practice? BBC NEWS | Education | School standard rise 'overstated'

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Another league table in which England is missing. Could schools absent themselves from league tables in this way too?BBC NEWS | Education | Singapore heads school test table

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So how do Finnish schools differ from those in the UK and how do those differences lead to such good results? EducationGuardian.co.uk | Schools special reports | The schools that Finnish top

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Here is one league table that New Labour spin doctors will not be happy to present EducationGuardian.co.uk | Schools special reports | Best schools are in Finland and the far east

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It is rare for unions to defend OFSTED but UNISON is not a teachers' union. In view of recent reports, a dimunition in the inspection of childcare would not be welcome EducationGuardian.co.uk | Special Reports | Ofsted proposals 'compromise childcare'

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More lessons from abroad as the political spotlight falls on childcare SocietyGuardian.co.uk | Society | Lessons from Reggio Emilia

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How is the contradiction between more autonomy for schools and closer integration of children's social services to be resolved? EducationGuardian.co.uk | News crumb | You can't claw back powers, Clarke tells local councils

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How is the contradiction between more autonomy for schools and closer integration of children's social services to be resolved? EducationGuardian.co.uk | News crumb | You can't claw back powers, Clarke tells local councils

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How is the contradiction between more autonomy for schools and closer integration of children's social services to be resolved? EducationGuardian.co.uk | News crumb | You can't claw back powers, Clarke tells local councils

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Will New Labour take the Social Democratic path for children? Guardian Unlimited | Guardian daily comment | The poorest children need middle England's mothers

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A report on a three country comparative study of childcare advocates Swedish social democratic modelBBC NEWS | Education | Underfunding 'hitting childcare'

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Another speech likely to do wonders for teacher recruitment while satisfying New Labour's core constitutecy, the Daily Mail. BBC NEWS | UK | Education | Clarke attacks teaching skills

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Wackford Squeers would have done well in today's schools. He certainly displayed the kind of leadership that produces results. BBC NEWS | Education | School 'cultures' drive results

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They used to call what prooduces this two tier curriculum, 'teaching to the test" BBC NEWS | Education | Ofsted 'two-speed lessons' alarm

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The logic of this executive director strategy for schools is that the country eventually has only one. More seriously it looks rather like the reinvention of the LEA. EducationGuardian.co.uk | News crumb | Phil Revell on 'executive' headteachers

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It is hard to imagine what Capita must do in order to fail to get a contract as privatisation surges ahead. EducationGuardian.co.uk | Schools special reports | Capita tries for teaching contract

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New Labour's education policies are coming apart at the seams Guardian Unlimited | Guardian daily comment | Give kids a break

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The struggle to abolish tests continues but it has yet to command the support of the majority of teachers. Perhaps those who did not vote also think they have a 'moral' purpose. Whatever could that consist of? BBC NEWS | Education | Teachers reject boycott of tests

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OFSTED's new inspection regime produces more failures. Is this a sign of falling standards? The more rigorous inspection of governors seems especially misguided although it does strengthen the case for regarding them as 'state volunteers'. EducationGuardian.co.uk | Special Reports | 'Praised' schools fall foul of Ofsted

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Looking for someone to blame for missed targets when the targets themselves and the managerialist regime they are embedded in might be responsible is understandable but misdirected. More 'research' from OFSTED EducationGuardian.co.uk | Schools | Ofsted pins literacy blame on weak teaching

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A typically perceptive commentary on league tables from Mike Baker which ends with a question the government might care to answer. BBC NEWS | Education | Are school tables worth having?

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Primary school tests explained BBC NEWS | Education | Analysis of the results

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This looks like an innovative attempt to use legislation designed for another purpose to abandon the current testing regime. BBC NEWS | Education | Heads attempt to opt out of tests

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The Chief Inspector, David Bell's speech to the Fabian Society. He says that the, 'association of social class with low achievement is not universal and inevitable' but it would be a strange society in which schooling ceased to be a major social class selection mechanism and the means by which much social class reproduction was accomplished. Press Office

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Typically, the Guardian leader writer wants it both ways in this, 'can schools change society?' conundrum. If the causes of low attainment lie outside school how can changing schooling make a difference? Doesn't anyone remember the debates of the sixties on these questions? A class diveded society or if you prefer, a society marked by increasing disparities in wealth and power gets a divided

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It is curious that construction companies are asked to run schools and given large amounts of money to do so but schools and LEAs are not asked to run construction projects. If the idea of an LEA winning a contract for track maintenance seems absurd why does Jarvis winning contracts in the public education service seem reasonable? Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Will they ever learn?

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