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Here’s one that will shock everyone… I think. It is reported in the Guardian today that primary teachers in England are ‘among the worst qualified in Europe’. Politeia, a right-wing think tank, claims that all primary teachers should have passed A-level maths and English, as a minimum, before being unleashed on eight- to eleven- year-olds.At… Continue reading Standards required to teach.

The BBC has just announced this morning that the national Strategies are to be scrapped from 2011! Hurrah!

More news from npr in the USA. One of the latest pieces the station has run is with the new Secretary for Education, Arne Duncan. You’ve heard of ‘Education, Education, Education’ but Arne has $100 billion to spend across the education spectrum! It’s the ‘civil rights issue of our generation’, he says, and the Obama… Continue reading 100 Billion dollars to spend on education!

What has been the result of the introduction of the National Strategies, ask the authors of the Policy Exchange report Tom Richmond and Sam Freedman? Despite claims that major improvements have taken place, they claim that ‘… in retrospect it is clear that much of this success was a cruel illusion.’ This is because many… Continue reading The Cruel Illusion