“…the most important thing is to make sure that we understand when children arrive in school how well they’re performing so that we can then ensure that those children who are bright are really stretched…”
Just to make a start on the documents and comments, here is the SoS on Daytime TV [sic] and on the BBC website – but here’s the consultation report on the National Curriculum and, as a sideline, the new report on cultural education, from the DfE website . Watch this space.
Ever wishing to present both sides of an argument, here is an interesting site, if only for the ways in which evidence is now used by education policy-makers. Gove versus Reality is clearly a site as polemic as Michael Rosen’s blog -which means that they need to be read as voices in the political debate. Rosen’s latest (9th July) entry, for example, is entitled Educational League Table Lies and looks at the SoS’s ideas about league tables nationally and internationally. It is lengthy, well-argued, but polemic. It has a short line here which I will end with, since it’s a warning to me as much as to policy makers:
Gassing on about ‘world-class education’ sounds like busy-work: ‘Look what we’re doing to make things better.’ This is a con.
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