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Wednesday, February 21, 2007

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dearieme

She seems to be suggesting a degree of specialisation: that what's taught should be suited to the recipient. That is contrary to the whole thrust of the progessive educational reforms since the sixties. If children aren't essentially identical, why have comprehensives, why abolish streaming, and so on? (Bloody hell, it seems I've just argued in the same vein in my comment on your jazz list.)

jameshigham

A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local but prized elsewhere.

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