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More implications of Progress 8 for schools

Performance tables
In his third article on the implications of the move to Progress 8, school leader Ben Solly identifies some key curriculum decisions that schools must be taking in order to be prepared.

Insanity is doing the same things over and over again and expecting different results.”

Considering this classic Einstein quote, no-one in education could ever accuse the coalition government of asking schools to improve results by continuing with the same practices and using the same frameworks.

What we are being tasked with, though, is improving standards each year while getting to grips with an unprecedented level of educational reform, and this has been a real challenge for all of us in education.

Of these reforms, the biggest game-changer is likely to be the Progress 8 performance measure, which has been met with quiet approval from the profession.

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