Aspiration And Actuality In An Education Action Zone  

Oleh:

Clarke, Paul

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Management in Education vol. 16 no. 1 (2002), page 14-17.
Fulltext: 14.pdf (50.07KB)

Isi artikel

The introduction of Education Action Zones during the first period of office of the New Labour government was hailed as a radical shift in the provision of state education. However, the concept of a focused area of educational priority is not new. The Plowden Report of 1967 promoted the idea of educational priority areas, the credibility of which suffered badly when the Thatcher government of the Eighties began to discredit ‘progressive’ developments of the Sixties. This did not deter the French government from promoting the concept of zones d’education prioritaires in 1982. But a study by the OECD in 1994 found that despite the substantial extra funding that the schools received, the pupil performance was at least two full years below comparable age groupings elsewhere. Despite the reported failings of these earlier ventures into targeted education initiatives, the New Labour government, under the guidance of government deputy minister of education Stephen Byers, launched the zones claiming that they would represent a “real threat to those vested interests which have for too long held back the school system.” (reported in the Economist 062798 issue 8074, p57) In particular, these “vested interests” were the local education authorities, many of which, ironically, became managers of the zones.

Opini Anda

Klik untuk menuliskan opini Anda tentang koleksi ini!

Kembali