How to Dismantle the English State Education System in 10 Easy Steps: The Academy Experiment

How to Dismantle the English State Education System in 10 Easy Steps: The Academy Experiment

How to Dismantle the English State Education System in 10 Easy Steps: The Academy Experiment

How to Dismantle the English State Education System in 10 Easy Steps: The Academy Experiment

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Overview

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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781789044300
Publisher: Hunt, John Publishing
Publication date: 12/01/2020
Pages: 168
Product dimensions: 5.64(w) x 8.58(h) x 0.39(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements viii

Preface 1

1 Embrace the third way 3

2 Rubbish the management of state schools 19

3 Cut budgets to local authorities and direct the money elsewhere 35

4 Broadcast data about state schools failing 48

5 Sing the praises of Standards not Structures 63

6 Screw the vocational curriculum and make it more 'scholarly' 75

7 Pay the few much more and care much less 83

8 Out-source slickly with relaxed attitudes to friends and relations 'winning' contracts - sailing close to the wind? 94

9 Promote lean national oversight by minimalist governmental agencies 103

10 Forget democracy and local responsibility for schools 126

Postscript 139

Endnotes 141

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