It’s interesting how electronic information can be rewritten so easily. Just take it down. And in the blink of an eye 11 years of work and discussion has gone. I wonder if there are any paper copies.
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Vast swathes of the Children, Schools and Families Bill didn’t make it through parliament before dissolution. What’s that? - The New Primary Curriculum was in that bill and it isn’t happening. Ed Balls forced to drop key reforms Sex education plans sacrificed to get education bill through parliament before it is dissolved Jessica Shepherd – [...] 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. [...] Pupils to study Twitter and blogs in primary schools shake-up • New curriculum will give teachers more freedom • Second world war and Victoria not compulsory Polly Curtis – Guardian 25/03/09 Study Twitter? Study Blogs? They are just tools to engage and stimulate. For many they are already, just an every day, common place thing. [...] Tests blamed for blighting children’s lives Landmark study of primary schools calls for teachers to be freed of targets Polly Curtis in the Guardian 20/02/2009 69 Comments as of 24/02/09 The Cambridge Primary Review published to day is available from their website in two parts (Part 1 & Part 2) there is also a briefing [...] Sir Ken Robinson in an interview with Jessica Shepherd in today’s Guardian. Our approaches to education are “stifling some of the most important capacities that young people now need to make their way in the increasingly demanding world of the 21st century – the powers of creative thinking”, he says. We await the Rose review [...] An article today in the Guardian on John Macbeath. I’d not heard of him before but he sounds like an inspiring chap and if he was vilified by Chris Woodhead he must have some good ideas. Free school thinker by Peter Wilby in the Guardian. 13/01/2009 An invitation to look again at Ivan illich cropped [...] Extraordinary announcements today. The one flaw seems to be SATs – any discussion of these was outside the remit of the review. SATs – “the elephant in the room” and of course it is the tests themselves. Sir Jim Rose’s Interim report into the Primary Curriculum advocates ‘areas of learning’ rather than the traditional subject [...] |
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