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January 15, 2011Games lessons: Depressingly few pupils get a proper academic educationWHEN Michael Gove, the education secretary, took up his post last May, he placed on the bare home page of his department's website the information that he considers most important: school performance tables. A few months later, Mr Gove added to the data deluge when he announced that schools would be judged not only on the proportion of pupils that passed examinations, but also on the share passing academically rigorous ones. The revamped league tables, published on January 12th, reveal the extent to which schools have artificially inflated their performance by steering pupils towards easier exams.Posted by Jim Zellmer at January 15, 2011 2:18 AM Subscribe to this site via RSS/Atom: Newsletter signup | Send us your ideas Comments
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