A new study, entitled Lessons from London Schools, confirms that since 2000 London’s schools have “dramatically improved at a faster rate than anywhere else in the country” – and it attempts to discover why.
It concludes that there has been no “magic bullet” and that the success cannot be put down to the contextual advantages that London has in terms of opportunity – it admits that resourcing, including finance, teacher recruitment and school buildings, has “supported school improvement”, but says it has not driven it.
However, the study, which has been undertaken by CfBT Education Trust and the politically independent think-tank Centre for London, does identify four “key school improvement interventions” that it says have helped.
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