A good school for every child
By: Cyril Taylor ; with a foreword by Kenneth Baker and David Blunkett.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415482523; 9780415482530; 9780203878484
Subjects: Education -- Great Britain; School improvement programs -- Great Britain
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: What makes a good school?; title: How to choose a good school for your child; title: Why we need to empower our headteachers; title: Why we must improve standards of literacy; title: How to ensure that all English 16 and 17 year-olds remain in full time education or training; title: How to improve low-attaining schools; title: Are academies a good thing?; title: Halting the demise of the United Kingdom's science and engineering base; title: How information communications technology (ICT) can be used to improve learning; title: How specialist schools have helped to raise standards in English secondary schools; title: Why our schools should become centres of community life; title: How we can better integrate our ethnic minorities into their communities?; title: Are schools with a religious character a good thing?; title: Who will champion our vulnerable children?; title: Why and how all our gifted and talented children should be nurtured; title: What lessons can we learn from other countries which have high standards in their schools?; title: Could the British education reforms be introduced into the United States?