PoliticalChic
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Here is an interesting read for those that care:
Improving Urban Schools: Leadership and Collaboration - Mel Ainscow,Mel West - McGraw-Hill Education
Professor Ainscow represents the progressive wing, the one responsible for the state of education today.
His groups' aims include:
To empower students in making continued advancements in education and enhance their experience.
To encourage proactive teaching practices for instructors.
To support institutions in gaining global credibility for their exceptional performance and academic advancements.
To help parents make the right decision for their child, by providing a diverse range of institutions with key comparative metrics, reviews and ratings.
To nurture entrepreneurs and business organizations in making further investments in the progression and development of the education sector.
Empower students to rise and gain recognition for their attributed capabilities, be it in academics, athletics or other extraordinary abilities.
Sounds good...
Professor West is also on the board of IQEA.
Have you seen this:
"Generations of children have been let down by so-called progressive education policies which have taught skills and "empathy" instead of bodies of knowledge, the shadow education secretary, Michael Gove, said yesterday."
"A Conservative government would reinstate traditional styles of fact-based lessons, he told teachers at a conference at Brighton College in Sussex yesterday. It privileges temporary relevance over a permanent body of knowledge which should be passed on from generation to generation .. Children being failed by progressive teaching, say Tories | Education | The Guardian