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academies per week need intervention
An average of more than two academies per week in England are facing formal interventions, according to figures released by ministers in response to a question by the Liberal Democrats. In the past year, 66 academies have been moved to another chain and 50 have been given warning notices to improve. The highest number were in the East Midlands and Humber region. A separate report from the London School of Economics and the Education Policy Institute has published research into the performance of sponsored academies. It found that results improve in the year after a secondary school is converted, but "the improvement dissipates over the following three years, eventually returning to levels previously seen before the school became an academy".
So academy's don't work, so lets try going back to grammar schools!
Social mobility tsar: Grammar expansion ‘a disaster’
Alan Milburn, the former Labour cabinet minister who now chairs the government’s social mobility commission, said ending the ban on building new selective schools risked creating an “us and them divide” within the education system. “This is not selection educationally, it is selection socially,” he said. In an interview with the Guardian, he urged Theresa May to publish a 10-year plan for social reform to tackle inequalities in education, career progression and the north-south divide. He recommended a series of policies, including a pay premium and discounted housing for teachers who move to disadvantaged areas and intervening to improve parenting skills, which he described as the “last taboo in public policy”.
OOPs they don't work either.
Have they got a plan C?
An average of more than two academies per week in England are facing formal interventions, according to figures released by ministers in response to a question by the Liberal Democrats. In the past year, 66 academies have been moved to another chain and 50 have been given warning notices to improve. The highest number were in the East Midlands and Humber region. A separate report from the London School of Economics and the Education Policy Institute has published research into the performance of sponsored academies. It found that results improve in the year after a secondary school is converted, but "the improvement dissipates over the following three years, eventually returning to levels previously seen before the school became an academy".
So academy's don't work, so lets try going back to grammar schools!
Social mobility tsar: Grammar expansion ‘a disaster’
Alan Milburn, the former Labour cabinet minister who now chairs the government’s social mobility commission, said ending the ban on building new selective schools risked creating an “us and them divide” within the education system. “This is not selection educationally, it is selection socially,” he said. In an interview with the Guardian, he urged Theresa May to publish a 10-year plan for social reform to tackle inequalities in education, career progression and the north-south divide. He recommended a series of policies, including a pay premium and discounted housing for teachers who move to disadvantaged areas and intervening to improve parenting skills, which he described as the “last taboo in public policy”.
OOPs they don't work either.
Have they got a plan C?
