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Sunday 23rd May 2010
Free Schools: What's going to be in the Queen's Speech?Fantastic news that the coalition is giving priority to education reform, with an Academies Bill in the Queen's Speech. This will be followed by an Education and Children's Bill in the autumn. In today's report in the Sunday Telegraph containing details of the Speech it says the second of these Bills "could be the vehicle for [Michael Gove's] much-anticipated 'free schools' drive to allow different groups, including parents, to start and run state schools". Actually, I suspect the second Bill will deal with how the much ballyhooed "pupil premium" will be distributed rather than free schools, not least because the "drive" to set up free schools doesn't require a legislative "vehicle". (To read more, click here.)
Comments page 1 of 1 - 3 post(s) Re: Free Schools: What Posted by jane on 24-05-2010 10:36: It would be totally unreasonable to expect Toby Young to have a balanced view on anything. Teachers were always being accused of brain washing and yet we have to listen to journalists, who get far more attention in the press than they deserve, presenting ideas which are not supported by any evidence. The Swedish model is not successful, neither are the US Charter schools. Just like academies or community schools, some are successful and some are failures. The difference is that local authorities can intervene when community schools fail. How does Toby Young plan to have accountability for his school, particularly if it is actually run by a commercial company? What amazes me is why anyone takes any notice of him. Free Schools and Grammar Schools Posted by Robert Davis on 24-05-2010 23:07: Coming from Scotland, I view this frenzy with some bewilderment. But in his rush for Free Schools (and, of course, the fetish of streaming) can we expect TY to polish up some of his data on the impact of Grammar Schools on social mobility? David Jesson's team is about to complete his unrivalled work addressing this question, and vital longitudinal analyses have been furnished by Rebecca Allen and Damon Clark. Their findings are clear: Grammar Schools make, and have made historically, no meaningful impact on social mobility even for those children of less well off sections of the population admitted into them. His own personal bildungsroman aside, then, perhaps TY will have the courage to model his Free School enthusiasms on something other than this most egregious failure of the British educational tradition (one, I am glad to say, of which we rid ourselves in Scotland two generations ago) hello Posted by dwilson1707 on 12-06-2010 04:50: Well, it’s amazing. The miracle has been done. Hat’s off. Well done, as we know that “hard work always pays off”, after a long struggle with sincere effort it’s done. ----------------------------- johndouglas <a href="http://personalfinancebible.co.uk" rel="dofollow">Personal Finance Bible</a> |
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