A New Approach to Educational Policy
Don Aitkin outlines the basic principles upon which we can develop a cohesive eduction policy focused on building a well-functioning society of competent adults. Instead of scattering education funding to appease different interest groups,...
Education Vision for 2015
Don Aitkin imagines an education system with high school retention rates of 90%, increased focus on unlocking creative potential, an emphasis on competence rather than winning, specialist high schools, better paid and educated teachers...
Where do we start?
How can schools provide equality of opportunity? by Don Aitkin
Rethinking education continued
Don Aitkin continues his discussion of educational systems. He believes they ‘will reproduce the existing social order very easily unless something is done to alter things. Reiterating that equality is the rule, and that...
Rethinking education
Don Aitkin argues that our schools and the way we construct them, with winners and losers defined largely in terms of the child's upbringing, are contributing to the problem. We can make them part...