Heads who taught PE or RE before
leading failing academies are more likely to adopt a damaging «short - termist» approach to running schools, but are awarded the most honours...
Not exact matches
The New Coalition
Academy is a column in Private Eye that depicts the UK coalition government
led by David Cameron and Nick Clegg [1] as if they were in fact taking over a
failing school.
After
failing to win the Best Actor Oscar for his performance in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (he lost to Robert Donat in Goodbye, Mr. Chips, which is a very good performance in a fine film, but come on), James Stewart was rewarded by the
Academy the very next year for The Philadelphia Story, in which he plays third
lead to Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant in George Cukor's monumental screwball.
It's hanging in their in these late rounds
leading up to the
Academy Awards, yet it will
fail to achieve the box office glory that «Black Swan» and «The King's Speech» are earning.
In an era in which hashtag protests can quickly spread like wildfire on social media, the
academy avoided a potentially thorny situation when James Franco — who has recently faced accusations of sexually inappropriate behavior from several women —
failed to score a
lead actor nod for his performance in «The Disaster Artist,» which earned him a Golden Globe award for best actor in a musical or comedy just weeks ago.
Even though, in replacing Jack Nicholson and Brad Pitt (who both were sort of iffy on the
lead - supporting continuum) with Mark Wahlberg's middle finger and Jackie Earle Haley's little appendage, the
Academy implicitly agreed with us, the no - small - parts - only - small - actors initiative will probably
fail to move through committee if Oscar voters vote with where history has informed us their hearts
lead them: lefty, global market agitprop.
He has been nominated for four
Academy Awards and recently received an Emmy nomination for
Lead Actor in a Movie or Mini-Series for HBO's «Too Big to
Fail.»
The Manchester Central MP said Labour's sponsored
academy programme did «a huge amount to transform a small number of
failing schools in disadvantaged areas», but warned there was «no evidence» that the process of changing schools into
academies «in and of itself»
led to school improvement.
•
Leading a
failing Alternative Provision
academy out of special measures in two terms • Coaching senior leaders to ensure rapid improvement in their schools • Developing outstanding Safeguarding practice as a member of a inner city Children's Safeguarding Board •
Leading a five - year, # 28 million whole school re-building programme.
By focusing our efforts on those schools most at risk of
failing young people, and encouraging «good» and «outstanding» schools to seize the opportunities of conversion, we will ensure the continued growth of the
academy programme, empowering frontline heads and school
leads, and transforming even more children's education.
Rachelle Wilkins, the GMB's
lead officer for the trust, said some
academy trusts «
fail to realise» the huge amount of work done by support staff, who she branded «the unsung heroes of our school system».
Janet Downs, a member of the group, told Schools Week that small MATs with a
failing «
lead academy» should not be allowed to expand until that school's Ofsted grade was «good» or better.