1st Edition

A Lesson For Us All The Making of the National Curriculum

By Duncan Graham, David Tytler Copyright 1993
176 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

Originally published in 1993. "A Lesson for Us All" tells of the intrigue and pressures that surrounded the introduction of the National Curriculum, the most sweeping educational reform since 1944, and examines the roles of three education secretaries: Kenneth Baker, John MacGregor and Kenneth Clarke. Duncan Graham was the man charged with introducing the new-style lessons into the 24,000... Read more

Preface  1. Birth of a Revolution  2. The Civil Servants Descend  3. When Two and Two Didn’t Make Four  4. A Question of Grammars  5. A Real Revolution?  6. A Time and a Place for Everything  7. A Merry Dance  8. The Nightmare of Key Stage 4  9. NCC Begins To Crumble  10. The Time to Leave  11. The Lessons of Change  12. Under New Management.  Glossary. Appendix

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Duncan Graham, David Tytler