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Selection isn't working By Tony Edwards and Sally Tomlinson. A Catalyst Working Paper. For the government, the modernisation of secondary education means moving into a "post-comprehensive era", replacing "bog standard" provision with an expanded programme of school specialisation in the name of "diversity" and "choice". But in reality this will mean an increasing return to both covert and overt selection, argue Tony Edwards and Sally Tomlinson. And the research evidence they present indicates that this will do nothing to raise standards, and will serve only to worsen existing social segregation and inequalities of educational opportunity. In conclusion they sketch an alternative approach to secondary education that avoids the damage done by selective systems to both individual life chances and the common good of society. "This new Catalyst pamphlet provides a concise assessment of the evidence
and a lucid exploration of the arguments relating to selection and diversity.
It deserves to be read by every parent, policy maker and politician in
England." "... devastating ..." Tony Edwards is Emeritus Professor of Education at Newcastle University, and has co-directed research (with Professor Geoff Whitty) on the Assisted Places Scheme, the City Technology College initiative, and most recently on the educational careers and employment of young people from selective and non-selective schools. Sally Tomlinson is Emeritus Professor of Education Policy at Goldsmiths College, London University and a Research Associate in the Department of Educational Studies, University of Oxford, and the author of Education in a Post-Welfare Society, Open University Press, 2001.
"Not so special after all" - Education Guardian, 15 October 2002 "Selection in all but name" - Times Educational Supplement, 11 October 2002 "Schools reform 'breeds cynicism'" - The Guardian, 3 October 2002
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