Posted by Editors Andreas Schleicher, Doug Lemov, EdReform, EduBusiness, Education Endowment Foundation, In The News, Management Consultants, Managerialism, Michael Barber, Policy, Research, Schools, Social Enterprise, Standards, Technology, Testing, Working Conditions Sunday, November 20th, 2016
In most cases (particularly when the work to be done is intricate in its nature) the “development of the science” is the most important of the four great elements of the new management. There are instances, however, in which the “scientific selection of the workman” counts for more than anything else. A case of this […]
Posted by Editors EdReform, Exams, In The News, Policy, Schools, Teacher Training, Teaching Sunday, November 20th, 2016
“Once charismatic qualification has become an impersonal quality, which can be transmitted through various and at first purely magic means, it has begun its transformation from a personal gift that can be tested and proven but not transmitted and acquired, into a capacity that, in principle, can be taught and learned. Thus charismatic qualification can […]
Posted by Editors EdReform, Educationalists, In The News, League Tables, Schools, Social Enterprise, Standards, Teacher Training, Testing Sunday, November 20th, 2016
A good showman is a person that has a sense or knack for an effective presentation of an animal. Showmanship is the one area of exhibiting beef cattle over which you have the most control. In showmanship, you are judged on your abilities to control and present your steer or heifer to bring out its […]
Posted by Editors DfE, EdReform, EduBusiness, Government, In The News, Management Consultants, Policy, Politics, Research, Schools, Social Enterprise, Technology Wednesday, March 9th, 2016
Gilbert and Sullivan’s H.M.S. Pinafore Sir Joseph Porter, KCB: When I was a lad I served a term As office boy to an Attorney’s firm. I cleaned the windows and I swept the floor, And I polished up the handle of the big front door. Chorus: He polished up the handle of the big front […]
Posted by Editors Andreas Schleicher, Big Data, EdReform, EduBusiness, Educationalists, Exams, In The News, OECD, PISA, Schools, Teaching, Technology, Testing, Waldorf Sunday, June 28th, 2015
Andreas Schleicher works out of the OECD in Paris, and is best known for the the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), “a triennial international survey which aims to evaluate education systems worldwide by testing the skills and knowledge of 15-year-old students.” According to a January 2010 presentation given to the Quality of Childhood Group […]
Posted by Editors Academies, EdReform, In The News, Labour, Mike Baker, Politics, Schools, Tories Monday, June 22nd, 2015
BBC News, August 2010 “In education, if you wait long enough, most ideas come full circle. This week saw Royal Assent for the Academies Bill, one of the fastest pieces of education law ever enacted. But while it could have far-reaching implications, the Academies Act actually turns back the clock to a reform brought in […]
Posted by Editors Academies, ARK, CfBT, Charter Schools, EdReform, EduBusiness, Free Schools, In The News, League Tables, Management Consultants, McKinsey & Co., OECD, Ofsted, PISA, Research, Teach First, Teach for America, Teach for Australia, Testing, Unions Monday, June 30th, 2014
We were a little undecided as to whether or not to write this post because of the youthfulness of those involved in Lessons from London Schools: Investigating the Success (LLS), the study that we will critique, and not wanting for youthful enthusiasm to be overly dampened by what is to be said about the LLS […]
Posted by Editors EdReform, In The News, Policy, Politics, Research, Schools Wednesday, April 23rd, 2014
Hard Times Charles Dickens CHAPTER II MURDERING THE INNOCENTS Thomas Gradgrind, sir. A man of realities. A man of facts and calculations. A man who proceeds upon the principle that two and two are four, and nothing over, and who is not to be talked into allowing for anything over. Thomas Gradgrind, sir—peremptorily Thomas—Thomas Gradgrind. […]
Posted by Editors EdReform, HE, In The News, Policy, Politics, Schools Wednesday, April 23rd, 2014
This year is the 160th anniversary of the publication of Charles Dickens’ Hard Times, and it remains as relevant to battles over education and schooling as ever. CHAPTER I THE ONE THING NEEDFUL ‘Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing […]
Posted by Editors Academies, EdReform, Free Schools, In The News, Labour, Politics, Schools, Teach First, Teacher Training, Tories Sunday, March 2nd, 2014
The question to be addressed in this short post is prompted by statements made on a number of occasions by Tristram Hunt, Labour’s shadow Education Secretary. Mr. Hunt has recently made a number of public remarks about how the Tories have been wrong to allow schools to employ unqualified teachers (E.g. here, here, and here). […]
