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UPDATE: National Curriculum Review - Primary Draft Curriculum Released
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11/06/2012
By Laura McInerney, Policy Development Partner
The Coalition have made it clear they want a rigorous, internationally competitive curriculum based on lots of specified content. In December last year we created a short guide to the lengthy ‘expert review’ of the National Curriculum. The experts used high-performing countries’ curriculum to suggest several reforms to...
'Saving' the 'bright but poor'
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25/05/2012
By Loic Menzies, LKMco Director
A few days ago Laura tweeted that bright but poor kids were by definition a minority and got a whole load of ire in response. Now, after a particularly heavy few weeks of a certain kind of social mobility rhetoric from Clegg and co, and a few too many conversations about transforming education by giving talented poor kids more opportunities I...
Reach for the stars!... Then what?
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26/04/2012
By Loic Menzies, LKMco Director
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s Round Up Report “The Role of Aspirations, Attitudes and Behaviour in Closing The Educational Attainment Gap” draws together three different reports which look at the impact of educational interventions on attainment. It has two main conclusions:
1. The absence of rigorous data on the impact of...
Universities Writing A-Level Exams Won't Create Super-Human Students
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03/04/2012
Written by Laura McInerney, Policy Development Partner
Each year students leave my classroom fully capable of researching topics, writing essays and defending their views. Five months later those same students sit in my classroom, as a quivering wreck, because they are one week away from the due date of their first university essay and they don't know what to do.
Universities...
