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Publication Date: 2005
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Academies and How to Beat Them: "Our Pits, Our Jobs, but Not Our Schools"
Bailey, Matt
FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, v47 n1 p6-7 2005
The author of this paper, Matt Bailey, has taught for six years at Northcliffe School, Doncaster, where he is the NUT representative, and Head of Science. A member of the NUT's national working-party on academies, he outlines here the first successful campaign waged by a local community to thwart the imposition of a privately-run Academy in place of their existing comprehensive school.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Innovation, Career Academies, School Community Relationship, Privatization, Advocacy, Consciousness Raising, Group Experience, Activism, Change Agents
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