donderdag 16 juni 2011

England's 200 worst-performing primaries to be made academies

Next year two hundred of England's worst-performing primary schools will be closed and re-opened as academies, the government is to say. Education Secretary Michael Gove says this will force schools which have not reached the target levels in maths and English to improve. The new academies we be under control of the local authority, probably by more successful local schools. Another 500 schools all over the country will be told that they have three years to improve their standards.
The poorest-performing 200 schools will include those which have failed for five years to meet targets for 11-year-olds in maths and English.Mr Gove told the BBC it was time to turn the focus on primary schools. "We can't have a situation where young children are arriving at the age of 11 at secondary schools not secure in English and mathematics. That's why we need rapid action to deal with the very worst primary schools."


My opinion:
When a school does not reach the target levels for 11-year –olds the government should do something. Although the government does regonize the problem they are only solving it for the moment. I think that the government should go back to the basic. Why it is that these schools don’t reach the target levels and what can we do so that they can?  
And I do believe that closing 200 schools only revere to not know who to give the highest priority; solving the “problem” or being concerned about children and what to do the best for them.

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