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Not a single failing school became an academy less than nine months after an inspection in at least 26 local authorities over the past three years, Schools Week can exclusively reveal.
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One of the consequences of the extraordinary decline (nearly 90 percent) in federal support for education research over the past 25 years, as reported by Richard C. Atkinson and Gregg B. Jackson in their 1992 report for the National Academy of Sciences, has been the profound loss of rigorous inquiry into how schooling can be improved academically for all and how youth culture can become more attuned to the deferred gratification of academic achievement and less oriented to the immediate imperatives of money, clothes, and other amusements.
However, the report did note that academies are significantly more likely to be rated by Ofsted as «Outstanding» compared to similar maintained schools, although this finding is less robust for converter academies because many have not been re-inspected since becoming an academy.
Less than seven percent said that they supported the goal of every school becoming an academy, while 85.6 per cent opposed the idea.
«I think as money becomes less plentiful, we become more committed to being very creative in maintaining the programs that we see are most successful,» explains Moustris, who gets high marks from academy teachers for almost always finding a way to get them the supplies and equipment they need.
He follows Paul Smith who left his role as RSC for Lancashire and West Yorkshire less than 12 months in to become chief exeuctive of the Future Academies trust, founded and run by junior schools minister Lord Nash.
For example, 37 of the 52 secondary schools judged less than good since 2005 have become academies and were found not to have improved when inspected in 2016/17.
The government is keen to talk about the structures in education, evidenced by its fixation with schools becoming academies, but is less keen to talk about school improvement as well.
«The benefits of becoming an academy will be enormous - less bureaucracy certainly but also more resources which we ourselves will be able to manage,» he said.
The government says the scheme to allow all good schools to become academies will drive up standards, because it believes the system will be less bureaucratic and that head teachers are best - placed to know what is best for their pupils.
If the school is able to buy in the services it needs more cheaply, or has less need of those services, it can benefit financially from becoming an academy.