WHAT'S LEARNING GOT TO DO WITH IT?:

Reforms 'improve teachers' lives' (BBC, 10/08/07)

Schools have used workload reforms to improve teachers' lives but not necessarily to improve education, the inspectorate Ofsted has said.

Ofsted said the deal between government and unions was meant to raise standards as well as to reduce workloads.

It said schools in England had tended to treat the improvement to teachers' work/life balance and the greater use of support staff as ends in themselves.

The unions work for the teachers, not the kids.

Posted by Orrin Judd at October 8, 2007 10:35 PM