| Topic: | Better Schools | |
| Posted by: | Michael Sterne | |
| Date/Time: | 24/02/12 11:17:00 |
| Richard, considerations of structure and quality are not mutually exclusive. The statistics you deride as "blanket" also show that systems that provide for high quality entrants to teaching, effective initial and continuing professional development and professional autonomy are the more successful. If, however, you segregate more able and less able children, you create schools with children who are more disruptive, disadvantaged and difficult to teach. Such schools are more difficult to run, which is why more of them fail. Any farmer can succeed but it is much easier to do so on fertile soil. Ofsted published a book, "Twelve outstanding secondary schools - Excelling against the odds" The title speaks for itself. Whats wrong with making the odds more even? |