education, education, education

[ace00]

Any Labour voters left? This article will surely bring you back from the darkside:

"Great expectations fallen on hard times: it is a tale, ultimately, of the four in ten children, born in the year Labour came to power promising “education, education, education”, and leaving primary school today still without real competence in literacy, numeracy and science. Funny that those statisticians cannot come up with a chart illustrating that. "

Full article:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/com...cle4466583.ece

[Cyberman]

That's just malicious propaganda by right-wing Tory press !!!

[expat]

Any Labour voters left? This article will surely bring you back from the darkside:

"Great expectations fallen on hard times: it is a tale, ultimately, of the four in ten children, born in the year Labour came to power promising “education, education, education”, and leaving primary school today still without real competence in literacy, numeracy and science. Funny that those statisticians cannot come up with a chart illustrating that. "

Full article:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/com...cle4466583.ece

This explains the obsession with testing: it has become not a tool of policy, but policy itself.

It's the Accenture ploy: first define the targets in your terms, then hit those targets, then claim success. Regardless of results.

Any ex-Andersen people in the government? Hmmm.