The Truth About Our Schools: Exposing the myths, exploring the evidence
Autor Melissa Benn, Janet Downsen Limba Engleză Paperback – 23 noi 2015
Owen Jones, Guardian columnist and best-selling author
Never has it been more urgent to publicise the truth about what works and doesn't work in our education system. Debunking the ideology of marketisation, and exposing the half-truths that pass for objective reporting, Benn and Downs meticulously lay out the evidence: that a national system of comprehensive schools delivers the best outcomes. This hugely important book should be required reading for each new Education Secretary.
Caroline Lucas, MP
Opinions about comprehensive education are often made into easy-to-swallow sound-bites by media and politicians alike and whilst the benefits of a genuinely comprehensive education for all pupils are obvious, untruths have unwittingly evolved into hard facts. Based on Melissa Benn and Janet Downs’ work as part of the pioneering Local Schools Network, The Truth About Our Schools calls for us to urgently and articulately challenge unquestioned myths about state education. Benn and Downs have meticulously built an argument for its still enormously vital role, and rigorously challenge assumptions that:
- Comprehensive education has failed
- Local authorities control and hold back schools
- Choice, competition and markets are the route to educational success
- Choice will improve education in England: the free school model.
- Academies raise standards
- Teachers don’t need qualifications
- Private schools have the magic DNA
- Progressive education lowers standards
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781138937178
ISBN-10: 1138937177
Pagini: 184
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1138937177
Pagini: 184
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
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Myth Number 1: Comprehensive education has failed
Myth Number 2: Local authorities control and hold back schools
Myth Number 3: Choice, competition and markets are the route to educational success
Myth Number 4: Choice will improve education in England: the free school model.
Myth Number 5: Academies raise standards
Myth Number 6: Teachers don’t need qualifications
Myth Number 7: Private schools have the magic DNA
Myth Number 8: Progressive education lowers standards
Myth Number 2: Local authorities control and hold back schools
Myth Number 3: Choice, competition and markets are the route to educational success
Myth Number 4: Choice will improve education in England: the free school model.
Myth Number 5: Academies raise standards
Myth Number 6: Teachers don’t need qualifications
Myth Number 7: Private schools have the magic DNA
Myth Number 8: Progressive education lowers standards
Notă biografică
Melissa Benn is a journalist and author, a campaigner for high-quality comprehensive education and a founder of the Local Schools Network.
Janet Downs is a retired secondary school teacher. She is now an education researcher and blogs regularly on the Local Schools Network.
Janet Downs is a retired secondary school teacher. She is now an education researcher and blogs regularly on the Local Schools Network.
Recenzii
"Benn and Downs robustly challenge eight of the most commonly ingrained myths about our schools - such as the claim that 'comprehensive education has failed' - providing compelling evidence to support their arguments in every case. It's invaluable reading" - Teach Secondary
"The Truth About Our Schools powerfully combines Melissa Benn's forceful prose with Janet Downs's solid professional experience into a book which is at once readable and authoratative" - Francis Beckett, Third Age Matters
"This book is most timely and deserves to be read by a wide audience including educators and politicians" - Sarah Brew, Parents in Touch
"This slim but vital volume is sub-titled ‘Exposing the myths, exploring the evidence’, and indeed the seven most common myths are taken apart. Comprehensively. Starting with that big whopper, that comprehensive education has failed, the book moves through local authority ‘control’ of schools, how choice and competition produce success, academies raise standards, teachers don’t need qualifications, the magic DNA of private schools (of course, there is one – parental wealth and connections), and ends with the perennial progressive teaching lowers standards." - Educational Politics
"The Truth About Our Schools powerfully combines Melissa Benn's forceful prose with Janet Downs's solid professional experience into a book which is at once readable and authoratative" - Francis Beckett, Third Age Matters
"This book is most timely and deserves to be read by a wide audience including educators and politicians" - Sarah Brew, Parents in Touch
"This slim but vital volume is sub-titled ‘Exposing the myths, exploring the evidence’, and indeed the seven most common myths are taken apart. Comprehensively. Starting with that big whopper, that comprehensive education has failed, the book moves through local authority ‘control’ of schools, how choice and competition produce success, academies raise standards, teachers don’t need qualifications, the magic DNA of private schools (of course, there is one – parental wealth and connections), and ends with the perennial progressive teaching lowers standards." - Educational Politics
Descriere
Opinions about comprehensive education are often made into sound-bites by the media and politicians. Whilst the benefits of a comprehensive education for all pupils are obvious, untruths have unwittingly evolved into hard facts. As part of the Local Schools Network, Benn and Downs are challenging myths about state education and have meticulously built an argument for its still enormously vital role. Anyone who thinks that comprehensive education has failed, that local authority control holds back schools, that competition & markets are the route to educational success and private schools hold the magic DNA will have their beliefs altered by this articulate and rigorously-evidenced book.