January 19, 2006
Thursday
Perhaps 'City Academies' are not the answer
"The Government's much vaunted city academies are among the nation's worst schools.
Half of the privately-sponsored schools have less than 30 per cent of students achieving five good grades at GCSE."
This from the Daily Mail today. Note that though these schools have some private sponsorship, they are still very much under the control of the government.
Posted by James Bartholomew • Indexed in Education
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Weren't they all the very worst schools to begin with though?
Can I ask a question? I find the sourcing in your book rather irregular. In particularly I can't see (forgive me if I have made a mistake) any source for the 19th century edition of The Times newspaper that claimed the middle class gave 10% of their income to charity, and that London's charities had a larger income than foreign (or European?) governments.
Two obvious questions come to mind - what proportion of the people were 'middle class', and whcih foreign governments - if it's Andorra's it's rather less of a claim than France's. Thanks.
Posted by: Matthew at January 25, 2006 08:50 AM