The document says: «We will promote the
reform of schools in order to ensure that new providers can enter the state school system in response to parental demand; that all schools have greater freedom over the
curriculum; and that all schools are held properly to
account».
Recent ideas for
reform have drawn on diverse sources, including the Carnegie Report, 6 as well as newly proposed recommendations for «best practices» in legal education7 and highly publicized
accounts of changes in law school
curricula at elite schools like Harvard.8 Like several earlier proposals, 9 these
reform efforts concentrate on law schools» failure to deal systematically with training for legal practice, as well as on these schools» haphazard approach to teaching legal ethics.