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Riddell, Richard – Improving Schools, 2009
The National Challenge, whereby all secondary schools had to attain 5 A*--Cs by 2011, was launched in June 2008. In this article, Richard Riddell outlines the main provisions of the National Challenge, which he characterizes as shallow, mechanistic and playing an old "performativity" tune. Although the new benchmark will be achieved by…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Secondary Schools, Benchmarking, Policy Analysis