Capita about to get the chop!

Labour to junk Tony Blair’s flagship school reform
Headteachers to get more powers as era of centralised control ends
Farewell then the Numeracy and Literacy Strategy, all the heartache and disillusion these strategies have caused. For me the Literacy Strategy was always worse than the Numeracy, but then I’ve always found maths easier to teach. Just that [...]

June 26th, 2009 | Tags: | Category: Quotes | Leave a comment

It can’t be done!

Sats replacement system ‘even more stressful for pupils’
Single level tests have produced wildly unpredictable results according to two secret reports on the pilots
Warwick Mansell & Polly Curtis in the Guardian.
“Some extraordinary results emerged in the pilots, with secondary pupils consistently scoring significantly worse than primary pupils who were up to five years younger than them [...]

June 23rd, 2009 | Category: Quotes | Leave a comment