Francis Green Do free schools raise the performance of nearby schools, as Policy Exchange have claimed, or is this a statistical mirage? There is a plausible argument that the opening of a free school in an area might spur other…
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Free school effects: an impartial review
Tagged with: educational research, free schools, school improvement
Posted in Education policy, Evidence-based policy, Schools
Posted in Education policy, Evidence-based policy, Schools
Conservative education plans are poetic – but are they practical?
Chris Husbands. This post originally appeared in The Conversation Each year, the Queen’s speech marks the point where the poetry of aspiration gets translated into the hard slog of legislation and implementation. The Conservative manifesto for education was certainly bold…
Tagged with: academies, Chris Husbands, education policy, free schools, school leadership
Posted in Education policy, Leadership and management, Schools
Posted in Education policy, Leadership and management, Schools
Bad marks for Sweden’s muddled teacher training in OECD report on school system
Susanne Wiborg. This post originally appeared in The Conversation Sweden has experienced a dramatic decline in the international ranking of its schools. Swedish 15-year-olds’ performance on the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development-led Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) has…
Tagged with: free schools, Susanne Wiborg
Posted in Education policy, International comparisons, learning, Schools
Posted in Education policy, International comparisons, learning, Schools
Select Committee Academies report: a clear-headed action plan for a new Secretary of State
Toby Greany Back in 2006-07 I acted as special advisor to the House of Commons Education Select Committee for an enquiry on Building Schools for the Future. Labour’s Barry Sheerman MP was the committee’s longstanding chair back then and it…
Tagged with: academies, Education Select Committee, free schools, Select Committee report on academies and free schools, Toby Greany
Posted in Education policy, Schools
Posted in Education policy, Schools
Politicians should be held accountable when their pet experiments fail
Frank Coffield The closure of a third ‘free’ school, this time in Durham, raises some very serious issues for our whole education system and for our democracy. The coalition government invested £900,000 of taxpayers’ money in the Durham free school…
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