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Which Coalition Education Policies Do People Like?
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22/11/2012
Written by Policy Development Partner, Laura McInerney, after a thought struck her while writing an essay....
Surely the Department of Education are doing some things right, I thought. All that skill in the DfE, all the human resource and political mandate, they must be cooking up some useful policies, my brain said. This was not expected. I wondered for a moment if my...
A Simple Test for Gove's "Soft Bigotry" Claim
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14/11/2012
By Laura McInerney, Policy Development Partner
If Michael Gove's implied claim that teachers undermark student controlled assessments due to the 'soft bigotry of low expectations' is true, then the issue must be tackled head-on and tackled quickly. Gove’s planned prejudice 'solvent' of changing from coursework to exams is not only slow but it only gets...
Cries from the classroom: "It’s not fair!” Responses to the Ofqual report
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02/11/2012
Anna Trethewey, LKMco Senior Associate
Today Ofqual released their final report into the English Language GCSE controversy this summer. They take issue with teachers being ‘optimistic’ in their marking of controlled assessment.The modular exams also encouraged schools to ‘game the system’. However, Ofqual also confessed: ‘Monitoring by exam boards and regulation by us could...
From Ladas to Rolls Royces: what does it take to improve a school?
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01/11/2012
Anna Trethewey, LKMco Senior Associate
My recent visit to Victory Academy was heartening and it consolidated my belief that there are three critical aspects to driving improvement: consistent behaviour strategies, excellent teaching and learning and a shared vision.
Consistent behaviour strategies come first. Before Costessey High turned into Victory Academy,...
