Former London schools commissioner Tim Brighouse considers the history of education policy and why we need a UK-wide discussion on the purpose of schoolsIn one sense a responsible democratic government has every factual to question schools to deliver the world. And in an ideal world,schools would be only too happy to respond. But even whether allowance was made for context, modern governments absorb so exceeded what is reasonable that Alan Bennett was on the money in criticising it as having “close to a totalitarian attitude”.
After the moment world war an educational ambition for Britain was set based on RA Butler’s 1944 Education Act, and which settled the respective roles of central government,local government (through local education authorities (LEAs)), churches and schools. There were three assumptions:Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com