CASE Social Exclusion Seminars
Great Mistakes in Education Policy: and how to avoid them in the future
Ruth Lupton (University of Manchester)
Wednesday 07 July 2021 16:30 - 18:00
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About this event
Can a clear view of what’s gone wrong in the past help forge a new consensus about the policy directions of the future? In this seminar, Ruth Lupton will talk about her new book with Debra Hayes: Great Mistakes in Education Policy: and how to avoid them in the future. This short book, written for a general audience and drawing on an extensive range of educational research, looks back over more than three decades to examine how well education policy has stepped up to the challenges of growing economic, social and spatial inequalities. Identifying five ‘great mistakes’ that have combined to make education neither better nor fairer, it concludes that we are past the point where small additive reforms can deliver the equitable and excellent education systems that the post-COVID moment so urgently demands. Bolder and better-informed solutions are needed.
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These seminars are held on Wednesdays in term time at 12:00-13:00
Seminars this year will continue as in person or as hybrid (online and in person) events. Please check our website listings and Twitter feed @CASE_LSE for updates.
This seminar series is organised by:
Laura Lane, Email: l.lane@lse.ac.uk
Dr Abigail McKnight, Email: abigail.mcknight@lse.ac.uk
For further information and papers, when available, please contact:
The CASE team Email: case@lse.ac.uk.