Lord Adonis has been very prominent of late.
First acknowledging a problem.
Education: Primary pupils without basic skills highlight Labour’s biggest failure, says schools minister.
Polly Curtis in the Guardian on the 21st August.
Then advocating Academy Schools to solve some of the problems.
City academies to take over struggling primary schools
Polly Curtis and Allegra Stratton in the Guardian on the 25th August.
With some interesting rebuttals in the letters page today.
Academies are Primary concern.
As one Ralph Gayton points out this country has one of the worst records for class sizes in the state Primary sector. We’re still at an average of 26 and we all know that can go up to 28, 30, 32, 34 ……….
It’s also interesting in the context of another piece of research that appeared this week.
August born children struggle right through to University from the Institute of Fiscal Studies
I wonder when someone will put this into their educational thinking.
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