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What is left unsaid: making sense of grammar school policy

By Steve Courtney Filed Under: All posts Posted: September 27, 2016

Steven Courtney asks how can we make sense of an education policy that runs so clearly counter to the policy objectives of enhancing social justice set out by Theresa May in her first speech as Prime Minister ?  The problem of sense making The question of whether to have grammar schools is not one where the […]

Tagged With: education policy, grammar schools, inequality, MIE, privatisation

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Grammar schools and Downton Abbey politics

Helen Gunter By Helen Gunter Filed Under: All posts Posted: September 16, 2016

This week the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) published its report comparing education systems worldwide and its Head of Education questioned the evidence for selection as a way of improving schools.  Those who attended grammar schools such as Theresa May, argues Helen Gunter, make claims disconnected from research evidence and based on their […]

Tagged With: education policy, grammar schools, inequality, MIE

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Grammar school plans: a dangerous distraction

By Mel Ainscow Filed Under: All posts Posted: September 14, 2016

It’s rare for a public policy consultation paper to shock, but proposals from the UK Government to expand the provision of grammar schools have caused a storm of protest. Mel Ainscow believes this is a dangerous distraction and argues that more collaboration in schools, not increasing segregation, is what our children need.      The decision […]

Tagged With: education policy, grammar schools, inequality, MIE, social mobility

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