Learning Matters: The Truth about Our Schools—In England and the U.S.
School privatization is happening around the world. It should come as no surprise that many countries have the same draconian reforms foisted on their public schools like the U.S. I find it interesting to learn how other countries run their schools and the similarities and differences between their systems and ours.
Learning Matters: The Truth About Our Schools is by Roger Titcombe, who frequently posts about education issues in England on the respected Local Schools Network (LSN). While some language differences exist with terms, it is easy to see the likenesses in our systems.
Their Academies are like our charter schools, and when reading about them it is a bit uncanny to see the similarities. Roger writes:
Academies are independent schools and despite being paid for by the taxpayer the sponsors have had complete power to dictate how and what pupils learn. Much bizarre and educationally doubtful experimentation was taking place based on the Learning Matters: The Truth about Our Schools—In England and the U.S.: