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Life in the Pressure Cooker--School League Tables and English and Mathematics Teachers' Responses to Accountability in a Results-Driven Era
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Perryman, Jane; Ball, Stephen; Maguire, Meg; Braun, Annette – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2011
This paper is based on case-study research in four English secondary schools. It explores the pressure placed on English and mathematics departments because of their results being reported in annual performance tables. It examines how English and maths departments enact policies of achievement, the additional power and extra resources the pressure…
Descriptors: Mathematics Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Secondary Schools, Foreign Countries