Personalised learning under review_1750

ghdhair100 · Wysłany: Śro 6:16, 16 Mar 2011

Personalised learning under review
ensuring that personalised learning is a reality in every classroom setting out a vision for how teaching and learning should develop over the next 15 years. Topics Among the topics to be examined by the review are: teaching and learning strategies best use of setting and grouping improving parental engagement closing the achievement gap utilising flexibilities in the National Curriculum schools collaborating together.Deadline The group is expected to report before the end of the year on practical steps to help schools cater for every child’s talents and needs. Its findings will help determine how £625 million is spent over the coming two years on providing: small group work or individual tuition for pupils who need to catch up in English or maths targeted support for children who may underachieve opportunities to stretch the brightest pupils.Make-upThe review is being chaired by Christine Gilbert, chief executive of Tower Hamlets. Other members include Jim Rose,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], who recently wrote a review of the teaching of early reading; Derek Wise,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], head of Cramlington Community High School in Northumberland and Kathy August,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], principal of Manchester Academy.
The Court of Appeal pointed out that R and F's submission in the county court was of overt, conscious racism, and it was not prepared to find that there had been unconscious discrimination.The decisionThe Court of Appeal said that, unlike the ordinary civil claim where the judge decides, on the claimant's evidence only, whether the claimant has made out a case, in this case the judge had had the benefit of the whole of the evidence. Despite the school's failure to comply with the statutory requirements, the judge had been entitled to find on the basis of all the evidence that R and F had not proved racial discrimination.

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