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1. Education Excellence Everywhere White Paper.

Subjects
*BRITISH education system, *EDUCATIONAL change, *TEACHER recruitment, *EDUCATION, *SELF-efficacy in students, *ACADEMIES (British public schools), *PRIMARY education, *SECONDARY education
Abstract

The article offers information on the eight chapters of the white paper "Educational Excellence Everywhere," that was published on March 17, 2016. Topics discussed include the education excellence base on the capacity to improve and performance in England, the recruitment of talented teachers, and the empowerment of parents, communities and pupils of high performing maintained primary and secondary schools towards the academisation by 2020.

Published
2016

2. Counter-narratives of educational excellence: free schools, success, and community-based schooling.

Author

Gerrard, Jessica

Subjects
*BRITISH education system, *HISTORY of education policy, *FREE schools, *PLACE-based education, *ACADEMIC achievement, *SOCIAL classes, *EDUCATIONAL objectives, *SOCIALISTS, *SCHOOL children, *TEENAGERS, *ELEMENTARY education, *SECONDARY education, *EDUCATION, BLACK British
Abstract

The notion of ‘competitive excellence’ is an enduring cornerstone of UK educational policy. Most recently, expanding and adapting New Labour’s Academy project with the introduction of free schools, the Coalition’s approach advances and embeds competitive market-based forms of community engagement in education. Responding to this policy paradigm, this paper draws upon history in order to open up the notion of excellence. Through examining alternative practices of achievement and success in histories of community education, I aim to disturb the unquestioned attachment of educational excellence to the ideals of competitive meritocracy. Comparing across two community educational movements – Socialist Sunday Schools (established 1892) and Black Saturday Schools (established 1968) – I explore how achievement and excellence have been mobilised to very different educational aims. In distinct times and circumstances, both of these community initiatives practiced versions of educational achievement that challenged dominant knowledge hierarchies and underlying assumptions of incapability. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Published
2014
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3. Precious mettle.

Author

Draisey, Jeff

Subjects
*JEWELRY making, *PRECIOUS metal clay, *ART materials, *SECONDARY education, *BRITISH education system, *EDUCATION
Abstract

The author describes how he uses precious metal clay (PMC) in his jewelry-making classes at a secondary school in Great Britain. He explains that PMC is a mix of pure silver, water, and organic binder, and that it has the advantage of being easily shaped and reshaped, as necessary, until it has been fired. He describes the differences between using PMC and normal silver in terms of cost, waste, and creativity. He describes several student projects made possible by use of PMC. INSET: All that glistens.

Published
2007