Teacher performance tables planned |
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| Written by J Kennedy | |||
| Thursday, 15 September 2005 08:02 | |||
 Schools could be forced to publish ratings of their teachers' performance in a bid to drive up standards, Education Secretary Ruth Kelly has announced.Ms Kelly said that data measuring the subject-by-subject achievements of classes and individual pupils as they progress through school would be collected in order to enable heads and parents swiftly to identify under-performing departments or teachers. She said that she had decided to order the annual publication of the "micro-level" performance data with the aim of raising standards in an estimated 500 schools which are "coasting" - failing to get the best out of pupils - or failing outright. The proposals will be tabled in a Department for Education White Paper later this year. If they are approved, parents will be able to use the new data to make complaints direct to school inspection service Ofsted if they are unhappy about their children's schools. Figures will be collected by Ofsted inspectors and could be used to highlight variations in achievements between girls and boys and children from different ethnic backgrounds. Schools which are found to be failing their pupils could be taken over by more successful neighbours, in a process known as "federation", said Mrs Kelly. "It's a completely new approach and we will be able to see precisely how schools are performing and which bits of schools are under-performing," she said. "If you have got a really poor French department, for instance, you will see that pupils between 12 and 13 aren't making sufficient progress in French. The school will need to do something about that department - change the teaching staff, upgrade their professional development, bring in external support." Local authorities would be given the power to force federation between a failing school and a well-led school, potentially bringing in an executive head to run both, she said. The entire senior management and governing board of failing schools could be replaced. A spokesman for the Department for Education told PA: "This is about helping teachers. Federations are a way of good schools extending their influence, ethos and expertise to other neighbouring schools, headteachers and teachers. As Ofsted has said, we have the best generation of teachers."
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