Voices in the air : making sense of policy and practice in education / Chris Husbands.

CONTENTS Preface THEME 1: Home THEME 2: City THEME 3: Teaching THEME 4: Curriculum THEME 5: Assessment THEME 6: Accountability THEME 7: School Leadership THEME 8: Society THEME 9: Politics THEME 10: World THEME 11: Envoi Index.

Why is our workforce so feminised?; Great teachers or great teaching? Why McKinsey got it wrong; A National Teaching Service, Mr Mainwaring?; The government was right: as the 2010 White Paper said,

Boards: ripe for nationalisation?; THEME 6: ACCOUNTABILITY: What do school exams and phone hacking have in common?; We need a full-scale, politically neutral review of accountability and exams; Accountability: just what do we want to measure?; Ofsted, school accountability and the most able students; What's in an A-level score? The new floor targets for post-16; Re-take that! Why the government should rethink the role of exams in measuring school performance; In defence of Ofsted; THEME 7: SCHOOL LEADERSHIP: The academies commission: a ringside view of a system negotiating seismic change; If knowledge in education is sticky, how do we get it unstuck and flowing?; The riddle of autonomous schools: how will researchers crack the code?; THEME 8: SOCIETY: What does social mobility look like? It depends on your point of view; Child protection: schools want and need clear statutory requirements,

Not freedom to do their own thing; Understanding impact: what does it actually mean?; Birmingham's 'Trojan Horse' saga: partnership and trust are what are needed now; THEME 9: POLITICS: Thatcher's education legacy; Twenty-first century skills for those who will set the stage for the twenty-second; Election 2015: education is too important for politicians not to intervene; Déjà vu all over again: the endless loop of education policy; Nicky Morgan: time to read and reflect,

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In this collection of his journalism and policy commentary, former Director of the Institute of Education Chris Husbands provides a wide-ranging account of the nature, shape and impact of policy reform in education. Writing with wit, pathos, and authority he analyses the likely impact of reforms over five years of tumultuous change in education.

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