A lesson in incompetence: How 1 in 3 schools fails to provide adequate teaching Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1230668/How-1-3-schools-fails-provide-adequate-teaching.html#ixzz0Xsqow7u6

Laura Clark:

• Half of academies are substandard
• Countless school graduates start work without 3Rs
• £5billion wasted on adult literacy classes

More than two million children are being taught in schools that are mediocre or failing, inspectors said yesterday.

A 'stubborn core' of incompetent teachers is holding pupils back and fuelling indiscipline and truancy, Ofsted warned.

Despite a raft of national initiatives, a third of schools still fail to offer a good education.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at November 26, 2009 2:23 AM
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