About the Author - Short biography
Dedication
Table of Contents
Disclaimer
Foreword by Lord Baker of Dorking and the Rt. Hon
Introduction
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
What makes a good school?
How to choose a good school for your child
Why we need to empower our headteachers
Why we must improve standards of literacy
How to ensure that all English 16 and 17 year-olds remain in full time education or training
How to improve low-attaining schools
Are academies a good thing?
Halting the demise of the United Kingdom's science and engineering base
How information communications technology (ICT) can be used to improve learning
How specialist schools have helped to raise standards in English secondary schools
Why our schools should become centres of community life
How we can better integrate our ethnic minorities into their communities?
Are Schools with a religious character a good thing?
Who will champion our vulnerable children?
Why and how all our gifted and talented children should be nurtured
What lessons can we learn from other countries which have high standards in their schools?
Could the British education reforms be introduced into the United States?
Example of a Parent/School Agreement
The Admission of Students to the Harris City Academy Crystal Palace
How to calculate the value added of a secondary school by Professor
Analysis of a sample group of English schools on the list of 638, who in 2007 did not achieve 5+ A*-C at GCSE including maths and English using the David Jesson Value Added and improvement approach
Standard curriculum used by the Summer Institute for the Gifted in the United States
PISA rating of OECD countries by performance in maths, science and reading
Bibliography
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