By Melissa Benn,Janet Downs
"A brilliant, an important, blistering disclose of all of the myths approximately our schooling procedure which are all too frequently used to assault it. Melissa Benn back proves why she is one in every of country's such a lot ambitious schooling campaigners - and why the strong may still worry her.
Owen Jones, mum or dad columnist and best-selling author
Never has it been extra pressing to publicise the reality approximately what works and does not paintings in our schooling system. Debunking the ideology of marketisation, and exposing the half-truths that go for target reporting, Benn and Downs meticulously lay out the proof: nationwide approach of accomplished colleges provides the easiest results. This highly vital booklet might be required analyzing for every new schooling Secretary.
Caroline Lucas, MP
Opinions approximately entire schooling are frequently made into easy-to-swallow sound-bites through media and politicians alike and while some great benefits of a really entire schooling for all students are seen, untruths have unwittingly developed into demanding proof. in response to Melissa Benn and Janet Downs’ paintings as a part of the pioneering neighborhood colleges community, The fact approximately our colleges calls for us to urgently and articulately problem unquestioned myths approximately kingdom schooling. Benn and Downs have meticulously equipped a controversy for its nonetheless significantly very important function, and conscientiously problem assumptions that:
- Comprehensive schooling has failed
- Local specialists regulate and carry again schools
- Choice, pageant and markets are the path to academic success
- Choice will increase schooling in England: the loose university model.
- Academies increase standards
- Teachers don’t desire qualifications
- Private colleges have the magic DNA
- Progressive schooling lowers standards
Anyone who thinks that complete schooling can't bring, that neighborhood professionals are the executive block to enhancing our college procedure, that pageant and markets are the path to academic luck and that non-public faculties carry the magic DNA that may easily be transferred to different country faculties may have their ideals shaken through this blisteringly incisive book.
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