Top UK Principal on National Standards

The SST reports:

A VISITING British principal, famous for transforming a failing London school into an educational success, has come out in support of national standards in schools.

Sir Paul Grant, who will address educationists and government officials in New Zealand this week, says national standards make teachers and schools accountable.

National standards were needed to measure pupils’ progress and as benchmarks of schools’ performance, Grant told the Sunday Star-Times from London.

Which explains why Labour and the teacher unions are so oppossed. Accountability is a bad word!