It’s an odd way to conduct education policy promoting academies and starving schools of funds. But whats really worrying is how powerless parents are in the process“Academies raise standards,or so we have been told. As Melissa Benn and Janet Downs write in their excellent book The Truth approximately Our Schools, this is a myth that has “taken on the force of a quasi-biblical truth in public life”. Announced often, and its utterance alone has become the basis of its validity. This is an odd way to conduct educational policy. Facts should really speak for themselves,but this doesn’t seem to be the case where academies are concerned. Related: 'Massively' improved state schools threaten private sector Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com