How to Dismantle the English State Education System in 10 Easy Steps
The Academy Experiment
Published on 27. November 2020
168 pages
978-1-78904-431-7 (ISBN)
Description
'A sharp and incisive account of how state education has been dismantled into a system of competing Multi-Academy Trusts. We were told 'choice' would deliver higher standards. It didn't. It made the system more chaotic, wasteful and segregated. This book explains how it was done.' Alasdair Smith, National Secretary, Anti Academies Alliance
Terry Edwards and Carl Parsons tell the story of the takeover of England's schools by the super-efficient, modernising, academising machine, which, in collaboration with a dynamic, forward-looking government is recasting the educational landscape. England's school system is turbo-charged into a new era and will be the envy of the world, led by Chief Executives of Multi Academy Trusts on bankers' salaries, imposing a slim curriculum, the soundest of discipline regimes and ensuring that highest standards will be achieved even if at the expense of teacher morale, poor service to special needs, off-rolling of students and despite an absolute lack of evidence that this privatised system works.
Terry Edwards and Carl Parsons tell the story of the takeover of England's schools by the super-efficient, modernising, academising machine, which, in collaboration with a dynamic, forward-looking government is recasting the educational landscape. England's school system is turbo-charged into a new era and will be the envy of the world, led by Chief Executives of Multi Academy Trusts on bankers' salaries, imposing a slim curriculum, the soundest of discipline regimes and ensuring that highest standards will be achieved even if at the expense of teacher morale, poor service to special needs, off-rolling of students and despite an absolute lack of evidence that this privatised system works.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Collective Ink
File size
0,84 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78904-431-7 (9781789044317)
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How to Dismantle the English State Education System in 10 Easy Steps
The Academy Experiment
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Persons
Terry is a retired teacher who spent the last 38 years of his 41 year career in a 'challenging' comprehensive in East London. He was an examiner/moderator for A.Q.A. for 43 years and in this role visited hundreds of state and private schools throughout London and the South East. He lives in London, UK.
Carl Parsons is a former teacher, researcher and is a retired Professor of Education at Canterbury Christ Church University. He has written extensively about poverty and education, exclusions and the ills of inspection, and he campaigns against the privatisation of education. He lives in London, UK.
Carl Parsons is a former teacher, researcher and is a retired Professor of Education at Canterbury Christ Church University. He has written extensively about poverty and education, exclusions and the ills of inspection, and he campaigns against the privatisation of education. He lives in London, UK.
Content
- Intro
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- 1. Embrace the third way
- 2. Rubbish the management of state schools
- 3. Cut budgets to local authorities and direct the money elsewhere
- 4. Broadcast data about state schools failing
- 5. Sing the praises of Standards not Structures
- 6. Screw the vocational curriculum and make it more'scholarly'
- 7. Pay the few much more and care much less
- 8. Out-source slickly with relaxed attitudes to friends and relations 'winning' contracts - sailing close to the wind?
- 9. Promote lean national oversight by minimalist governmental agencies
- 10. Forget democracy and local responsibility for schools
- Postscript
- Endnotes
