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Things To Know About ED Hirsch and the 'Common Cultural Literacy' Idea
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23/10/2012
Written by Laura McInerney, Policy Development Partner
ED Hirsch's 'Cultural Literacy' has become quite popular in England this week due to him featuring on a Radio 4's Analysis and also being the subject of a blog by Daisy Christodolou, Managing Director of The Curriculum Centre. Hirsch is the man who wrote the book 'Cultural Literacy' which he followed by creating 'Core...
Of Omelette, Ofsted and "Getting to Good"
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02/10/2012
Written by Laura McInerney who, contrary to belief, does sleep occasionally.
The 2012 "Getting to Good" report from Ofsted about how a headteacher should make a satisfactory school a good one, is almost exactly the same as the 2008 "Sustaining Improvement" Ofsted report on taking a special measures school up to good; only this time, there’s no fluffy words.
Out goes...
‘In-school-variation’: Governors and Data
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30/09/2012
By Loic Menzies - LKMco Director
Tomorrow I will be doing something I think I should do more often. I will be talking to school governors about data and helping them understand ‘in-school-variation’.
My research on school governance showed that being able to look at data critically was one of the things that sets good governors apart and which they most struggle to...
A pragmatic approach to the 'middle tier'
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20/09/2012
By Loic Menzies, Director, LKMco
Edited 25.09.12 to add post-script in response to comments by David Laws, Schools Minister at the LibDem conference. See below:
Edited 26.09.12 to add SECOND post-script in response to a new report on LAs and the middle tier by the LGIU. See below
As “school autonomy” policies shift power down to school level and up to Whitehall, both Fiona...
