Are We Nearly There Yet?: Progress, Issues, and Possible Next Steps for a Self-Improving School System

The Department for Education's 2010 white paper “The Importance of Teaching” set out the coalition's aim to “create a school system which is self-improving”. In this inaugural lecture, Toby Greany assesses progress to date and the coalition government's approach to developing a self-improving system. He argues that the coalition is following at least four different reform approaches at the same time: the world class/no excuses approach, the freedom-to-teach approach, the market-based approa...