Value Added (VA) during the first five years of secondary school
There’s been a lot of coverage, prompted by us, of that old chestnut: girls do better in all-girls schools. The value-added evidence looks promising, but is that a safe conclusion to draw?
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Proof at last: girls do better in girls’ schools A study of Value Added scores by the Good Schools Guide proves what has always been a hunch: girls really do learn better in girls’ schools than in co-ed ones. Contextual Value Added scores, which measure pupils’ progress between Key Stage 2 and GCSEs, relative to what they might have been expected to achieve, show that girls in girls-only schools make more progress than girls in co-ed schools.
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Pro test or protest?
Eton started it, now they’ve been followed by Marlborough, Wellington and getting on for a dozen others. What are they after - precocious sophistication or just flattery and a politician’s ease with untruth?
Increasing numbers of senior independent schools, that admit children at age 13, are pre-testing children at age 10 or 11. Is this a move to create a new elite or a genuine way of ensuring a great marriage between school and pupil? Are schools that pre-test genuinely over-subscribed or just adopting a clever marketing ploy, to push parents to pledge their allegiance ever earlier?
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Desperate times, desperate measures This year, with the financial crisis in full swing, the soaring cost of living and independent schools pricing themselves out of the market, catchment area frenzy, to secure a place in top state schools, is gripping the nation like never before.
Anxious parents are willing to lie, cheat, and even change their religion to get their offspring into the right school. Enter the catchment area cheat, the parents who will do anything to get their children into the school of their choice and, while cheating to get into a school is nothing new, never have the stakes been as high. Pressure for places in the UK’s best state schools is intensifying with state grammar schools;leading the way. And, as Gordon Brown tells us, extraordinary times call for bold and far-reaching solutions. |
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