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Schools don’t lack the will. They lack the way: Incentivising excellence through market reform is a bad choice.
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10/04/2013
By Loic Menzies - LKMco Director
At the launch of his book, Incentivising Excellence: School choice and education quality, Gabriel Sahlgren made a number of proposals, the most widely reported related to school vouchers. Whilst at LKMco we generally pride ourselves on being constructive, I’m pretty sure you could work out what I think on many issues by taking whatever was...
"Marxists, Feminists & The Blob": Rethinking Gove's Outburst
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28/03/2013
Written by Laura McInerney, Policy Development Partner
If, as a teacher, your first recourse when a child doesn’t know something is throwing your arms despairingly into the sky, then you will put yourself into an early grave. A more productive approach in the face of alarming naivety is curiosity followed by patient explanation.
Following this maxim I found myself unable to...
Free Schools and Ofsted: When the data tells you precisely nothing
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21/03/2013
By Loic Menzies, LKMco Director
Last weekend the Independent ran a story on the fact that three Free Schools had been judged “not good” (i.e. requiring improvement). Its argument was that this showed the failure of the government’s flagship education policy. This is far from being the case: If it shows anything it shows that Free Schools are no better or worse than any...
The A-Levels That Make You Successful At Oxford? : Maths & PPE
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03/03/2013
Written by Laura McInerney, Policy Development Partner
In my continuing scepticism about the subjects included in the EBacc and ABacc, I decided to test one of the central drivers of its implementation: The subjects included are all preferred by ‘top’ universities.
This preference was originally highlighted in a 2008 Policy Exchange booklet: The Hard Truth About Soft Subjects...
