This tale of folly, arrogance and betrayal was in the Guardian today. The catastrophe stems ultimately from the Command and Control mindset that permeates every level of education, politics and government.
Politicians wreck our kids' education
The result of rigid, centralised control of the curriculum has been inadequate schooling for a generation of children
Francis Beckett
Friday February 20 2009
guardian.co.uk
I once asked Professor Marie Clay of Auckland University (she developed Reading Recovery, the only system yet designed which cures dyslexia in young children) why New Zealand schools had a much better record for teaching literacy than British ones.
Read more: Wrecking Education in the UK [click]
