Guardian: Academies: 200 and counting, but more doubts raised

Polly Curtis, education editor guardian.co.uk, Monday 7 September 2009 22.35 BST

The case for Labour’s multimillion-pound academy programme has yet to be proved and in some cases the disruption caused by closing down schools and rebranding them can harm children’s education, teachers’ leaders claimed today.

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What’s even worse than this is that case for our current perception for schools  is yet to be proved! The academies programme and the Building Schools for the Future programmes continue to provide the same old tired answers and are certainly not transforming our educational systems.  Radical and fresh thinking is required. CPE-PEN and Educational Heretics Press continue to press for this.