Plans to free up schools rest on questionable data and may have results that appal history buff Gove
It would be horribly ironic if Michael Gove's revolution in education was based on a model in which academic subjects were confined to the dustbin of history. The man who has made a welcome commitment to rigour in our schools and examination systems is at risk of signing off a reform which could see traditional topics disbanded. And he doesn't even know it.
The new education secretary hopes every school in the country will become an academy. Why? Because – he's been told – they are a proven model of success. Compared with mainstream maintained schools, academies have improved twice as quickly. That is, academies' headline five A*-to-C figures at GCSE have improved twice as quickly. But this achievement is questionable. Other than English and maths, we don't know in which subjects academies are gaining their A* to Cs
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