PISA panic – being honest about what PISA really shows
Every three years the education world is thrown into turmoil as the media report findings from the latest PISA study.
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The most read articles on Left Foot Forward this week.
Michael Gove and David Laws prioritise more academies over child protection
Michael Gove is ignoring serious warnings about his flagship academies.
How about we stop this indoctrination of children at taxpayers expense?
Let children experience people from different backgrounds and learn together in a religiously neutral environment.
Section 28 rears its head again in the UK
The revelation that 46 schools have Section 28-like policies is shocking, but there is a broader issue that the education system must do more for LGBT students.
Michael Gove, we need to teach less competitiveness and more compassion
Eton has a practice known as “oiling”, which as Anthony Seldon has approvingly noted “is learning how to win friends and influence others, and how to clamber over them to get what you want. It’s a mixture of ambition, self-confidence and bloody-mindedness.”
Don’t ban packed lunches, educate parents on healthy eating
People eat what their parents eat. First of all because children have to eat what they are given by their parents. But also because children pick up habits when they are young which can last a lifetime.
Gove’s attack on public education is purely ideological
There has always been one asset the Conservative party has had over Labour since Margaret Thatcher’s election in 1979, and that is the sheer ruthlessness of their convictions.
Is Gove’s department about to hand a school site worth £10 million to the private sector?
The Department for Education (DfE) has been accused of seeking to transfer a school site worth £10 million pounds to the private sector without compensating local authorities.
The mid-term report, and the report on that report
This afternoon saw a reaffirmation of coalition vows from the Conservatives and Lib Dems, along with a host of statements of values, all outlined in their ‘mid-term report’. Inevitably, Labour has retorted with a document of their own outlining thetest