"School effectiveness and school improvement are moribund categories of a frightened, unimaginative society that values control over creativity, a society whose priorities and dispositions lie in the stultifying language of audit and tyranny of targets"
Despite the well intentioned "imperative" of performance, it is a betrayal of education and the future of young people's lives. It is intellectually shallow and corrosive of much of what is central to human fulfilment and creativity. Michael Fielding
As a teacher with many years of experience of the merry go round of standard driven initiative after initiative, this piece goes someway to expressing my frustration with our current education system where many children's lives are simply left hanging in the balance.
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