Ofsted are having a turn, a U-turn. It’s supposedly the biggest turn they’ve had in 10 years.
“I want everyone to see us as a force for improvement,” says Amanda Spielman. Hurrah! Though careful with the language, please, less of the “force”...
Education, they’ve decided, has been too narrowly focused on exam results.
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They’re no longer going to treat children as primarily measurable “outcomes”. The emphasis will now be on “quality of education”, whatever that means. They’re going to pay much less attention to data.
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They don’t want us only teaching to the test.
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Moreover, they’re going to punish schools for “off-rolling” the poor and gaming league table rankings.
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