{"id":7525,"date":"2015-01-29T14:17:17","date_gmt":"2015-01-29T12:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=7525"},"modified":"2015-01-29T16:46:45","modified_gmt":"2015-01-29T14:46:45","slug":"league-tables-confusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=7525","title":{"rendered":"League Tables: Confusion?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There is a lot of excitement in the educational world today because the new league tables published are not following the previous format and are judging outcomes in a revised methodology\u00a0and to new standards. The change is designed to demonstrate more reliably how well a school is providing its students with the kind of education which should\u00a0be valuable in developing their lives and careers. It is no use sending our young people into a workplace which gives their jobs to better educated Poles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nevertheless when change like this occurs, the moment of change is uncomfortable because people tend to compare the new table with the old, when such a comparison will not work. Some schools seem to have prepared better than others and maintained a competitive standard. Others, formerly top performers like my local Academy, appear to have fallen off a cliff. Those which\u00a0have done so will no doubt show up better next year. If they don&#8217;t we shall know that not all was as we were earlier led to believe. Parents will vote with their feet. That apparently is the\u00a0whole\u00a0idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a lot of excitement in the educational world today because the new league tables published are not following the previous format and are judging outcomes in a revised methodology\u00a0and to new standards. The change is designed to demonstrate more reliably how well a school is providing its students with the kind of education [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malcolm-blair-robinson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7525"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7530,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7525\/revisions\/7530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}