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Front Row Seats: What We've Learned from the National Literacy and Numeracy Strategies in England

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Front Row Seats: What We've Learned from the National Literacy and Numeracy Strategies in England

Abstract/Description

As the OISE/UT team has followed the literacy and numeracy reforms in England, they have been examining them in relation to large-scale reform using a model that considers both the policy levers and the local challenges associated with any attempt to change schools on a massive scale. In this paper, the authors describe their findings from the first two years of what will be a four-year project. They conclude that the National Strategies for Literacy and Numeracy have made significant changes in primary education throughout England in a remarkably short period of time. The changes, however, are not yet deep-seated enough to continue without consistent pressure and support. The next phase of NLS and NNS reform is crucial because it involves deepening the teaching practices in classrooms and schools, ensuring that other areas of the curriculum are progressing apace and, attending to the generic aspects of the broader structure of the profession.

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3

Issue

1

Pages

35-53

Resource type

Research/Scholarly Media

Resource status/form

Published Text

Scholarship genre

Empirical

Open access/full-text available

No

Peer reviewed

Yes

ISSN

1573-1812

Citation

Earl, L., Watson, N., & Torrance, N. (2002). Front Row Seats: What We’ve Learned from the National Literacy and Numeracy Strategies in England. Journal of Educational Change, 3(1), 35–53. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1016579405813

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