Posts Tagged ‘selection’
Labour should subvert the Tory academy programme to end selection
A shorter version of this article appears in the Guardian today I am sure I wasn’t alone in feeling a profound sense of gloom on hearing that the go-ahead has been given for what will effectively be a new grammar school in the Kent town of Sevenoaks. For the last fifteen years too many people, […]
Reforming admissions – now that would be radical
Link to original article in Education Guardian Change, versus more of the same, is possibly the hardest worked political slogan of recent years. So talk of more radical school reform grinds on, following last week’s PISA report, when what is on offer is a just dull continuation of the past. Is there anything in the […]
Lessons from PISA
The new PISA data is out, based on tests taken by half a million 15 year olds in 70 countries. Its key findings are here. What does it tell us? NOT that the performance of English pupils got worse but that we were outperformed by more nations than last time this data was collected in […]
Fairer admissions for poor children? Let’s start by ending selection
So Michael Gove wants the admissions system to benefit poor children. Excellent. But rather than given a few schools the option of prioritising children on free school meals, he should start by ending academic selection, and all the other covert methods many schools use to hand pick the affluent children most likely to succeed. And […]
