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school website yourself. What will you write today's school news to be?Archive page for Thursday, 12 June 2008
Th, Jun 12, 2008Variation in lesson plans?
National curriculum constrains teachers and pupils: "Teaching union leaders said teachers were fearful of straying from the national curriculum and in many cases were no longer able to design lessons themselves."
A little variation should be possible, but even this should be proscriptive. How can some pupils be so different from the rest of the country that there needs to be such a big variation?
Money talks
Schools choice 'still restricted':
"Alastair Muriel, co-author of the report, said: "In a system of inflexible supply, parent demand is not harnessed as a force to drive up standards - instead, securing places at the best performing schools is a zero sum game, and one which better-off parents tend to 'win' at the expense of the less well-off.
"In other words, if schools do not have to compete with one another, then parents are forced to.""
Threats
Minister's threats put schools in turmoil, say heads:
"Joan McVittie, headteacher of Woodside high school in Haringey, London, where last year 17% of pupils got five good GCSEs including English and maths, said it was all but impossible for many schools to drastically improve results in English and maths within three years. "It's a much longer term issue, it needs five years of study. If they've already had three years of poor teaching, they can't meet it in the final two years.""
