I think you are missing the wider point. If you raise your eyes and look a little further than the Ed. Sup. in the Guardian, have a look in the Spectator and the open letter by Katherine Birbalsingh to the Education Minister. www.spectator.co.uk/article/what... - ThreadSky

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geoffrey-kolbe-01.bsky.social • 19 days ago

I think you are missing the wider point. If you raise your eyes and look a little further than the Ed. Sup. in the Guardian, have a look in the Spectator and the open letter by Katherine Birbalsingh to the Education Minister.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/what-problem-is-the-education-secretary-trying-to-solve/

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rearlamp.bsky.social•19 days ago

the mostly paywalled Spectator edited by Michael Gove?

Try this by someone with 25 years of education research.
https://theconversation.com/academies-havent-raised-pupil-achievement-theres-no-need-for-them-to-have-privileges-that-other-schools-do-not-247023#:~:text=It%20considers%20the%20academy%20programme,than%20the%20schools%20they%20replaced.

rearlamp.bsky.social•19 days ago

And the Guardian piece is reporting from Local Government Association data and critical analysis of the comparison criteria, such as using inherited grades. Ofsted grades are wiped clean when a school becomes an academy.
https://schoolsweek.co.uk/fact-check-do-council-schools-really-outperform-academies/

emmagoto.bsky.social•18 days ago

In line with the work of John Dewey, I believe that an experience is only truly educative if it leaves the learner open to more learning. If learning is pleasurable & promotes curiosity & positive emotions, children are more likely to want to continue learning. Learning should be a lifelong journey

emmagoto.bsky.social•18 days ago

This is about improvement against narrow measures. Are these even the skills needed in the workplace (aspects such as creativity, collaboration, critical thinking etc may be more useful than knowledge recall as required in tests). The decline in pupil wellbeing over the last decade is shocking.

emmagoto.bsky.social•18 days ago

I think the issue here is that whilst the regime described in the article might work for many children, the increasingly severe education system supported by schools such as these has led to a system that is increasingly excluding autistic children and others who do not fit the required mold.

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