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S2E13: Tim Brighouse and Mick Waters on 45 years of schools reform, and moving into an age of hope

Rethinking Education

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The Secret Garden of the Curriculum

In the 1970s, there was an oil crisis. Two or three schools are done rather badly. And so people were questioning whether what we've been doing since the war,. when everybody thought education was a good thing, was enough. We chose that day because we think a new age emerged with Baker's 1988 act and what happened in the 80s. It moved on then to one of markets centralization and managerialism. So our argument is yes, it is. No wonder if Newsome did a report called half our future. Well, many people now talk about the forgotten third of kids who don't actually achieve much through their schooling experience. For instance, school improvement has become, we

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