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by José Picardo

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July 25, 2021 José Picardo In Digital Strategy, Education, Educational Technology

A space for learning What can remote learning teach us about the future of teaching?

Welcome to Shooting Azimuths

Shooting an azimuth means climbing to a height, sighting an object on the horizon in the direction you’re travelling, and adjusting your compass heading to make sure you’re still moving in the right direction.

Shooting Azimuths is about constantly reevaluating where we are, where we need to go and how to get there. I hope you find reading the content here useful and occasionally thought-provoking.

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@Dorianlynskey But the wider question I think is this: do private schools prevent maintained sector schools from being funded properly and from improving? If the answer is no, then the objection to them arises from a normative stance, and as such it becomes a weak position to hold.3 days ago
@Dorianlynskey Proximity to well regarded maintained schools is a known factor pulling children away from private schools. If we can assign some of that state school success with funding, then arguably yes https://t.co/GBZvEwMgoz3 days ago
@Dorianlynskey The success of private schools in the U.K. is a fairly unique phenomenon, but they are successful here because they offer an appealing proposition. If I wanted to abolish them, I’d remove their appeal by funding the maintained sector properly.3 days ago
@Dorianlynskey Secondly, we need to ask ourselves how do private schools stop the government from investing in maintained education? Wouldn’t a better proposition be: let’s improve maintained sector education to make private education less appealing?3 days ago
@Dorianlynskey Two things then. Firstly, I don’t see any evidence that abolishing private schools will eliminate privilege. Finland often mentioned, but private schools don’t do well there mostly because maintained sector education is well funded and teachers are well paid.3 days ago