New skool rules, OK?(new orthodoxy in British schools is traditional rather than progressive)(Brief Article)

From: The Economist (US) | Date: February 7, 1998 | Copyright information

A new orthodoxy is being imposed on schools, replacing the "progressive" ideas in force since the 1960s. So has Britain got it right this time?

THE year of flower power and Sergeant Pepper was also the year that Lady Plowden taught the schools to teach. According to legend in the education world, "Children and their Primary Schools", better known as the Plowden Report of 1967, set off a revolution in the classrooms, as its groovy new "progressive" approach to teaching swept...

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