The limitations of economists’ analyses of the quality of education initiatives
Friday, June 17th, 2011 A study apparently demonstrating the benefits of academy status seems to have been highly influential in recent weeks. The research, by academics at the London School of Economics, was published in April. It has been picked up not only by Blairite commentators who backed the original academies policy, but now by the Department for Education in its push to encourage all schools to become academies. I would also hazard a guess that it was in the mind of the Today programme presenter Sarah Montague when she asked a sceptical head teacher yesterday morning to accept the statement that academies improveRead More →