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3 Easy Things Gove Could Do To Improve Learning
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23/05/2013
By Laura McInerney, Policy Development Partner
For all the arguments about education policy, nothing quite brings home the importance of teaching as when you are standing in an exam hall watching as the students you have cared for, stressed about, worried with, and argued over now sit – silently – face down in their papers, writing squiggles on a page that could make a...
Education Select Commitee 15/05/2013 - Gove on Curriculum & Accountability Reform
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15/05/2013
By Laura McInerney
Today's Education Select Committee saw Michael Gove questioned for two hours about his curriculum and accountability reforms. Gove seemed in good humour - confident, calm, very very knowledgeable. Critics may not like his conclusions, but they are undoubtedly well rehearsed.
Unlike previous Committees, this one was quite unfocused. Topics shifted...
Free schools are disproportionately serving more privileged pupils. It’s official
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14/05/2013
By Loic Menzies- LKMco Director & Laura McInerney Policy Development Partner
See additional note added 15.05.13
In 2012, only two Free Schools had a proportion of pupils on Free School Meals that matched their Local Authority. On average 11% of pupils in Free Schools were eligible for Free School Meals compared to 23% in their Local Area, a staggering 12% point difference...
Relevance is not synonymous with 'easy'
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13/05/2013
By Laura McInerney, Policy Development Partner
Relevance has become a bit of a 'sneer' term of late. But what do people mean by it? There seem to be two meanings. One is when you teach a whole topic simply because you think students will enjoy it or it fits their current preoccupations. That is not relevance. That is 'entertainment'. If students are merely repeating...
