The topic of educational institutions being an organised disciplinary society is the central theme of chapter two. ... The process of devolution has been a gradual one, and therefore due to differing socio-cultural and political climates, there is no single model of devolution. ... Many concerns have been raised about devolution in the pursuit of efficiency and rationalism. ... by a managerialist and economic agenda, as great pressure is now placed upon schools to perform. ... Whilst this is a key feature of policyhigh expectations of student outcomes? ...

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And many of them, such as Brittany, were honors students who had fulfilled all the other requirements of graduation except this one (Torres, 2010). ... Schools should be held accountable to "and raise expectations and standards for "all students, and the resultant improvement would benefit everyone. ... These initiatives are aimed at improvement through high standards, great expectations, and accountability, yet real improvement has not been borne out in the literature. ... The National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) has shown little improvement in the years under NCLB (Ravi...

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" (Aronowitz. 36) The role of the teacher in the students has been heavily disregarded. ... From a personal point of view, I believe in Aronowitz argument that "schooling" has quarantined the way students should be taught in today's schools. ... With doing these activities with the class, more students, including myself were better able to grasp the theme in what we were supposed to learn and apply. ... This belief has successfully rocketed the Finnish education system to rate among the highest amongst developed countries in the world. ... Aronowitz states "Americans h...

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In many schools throughout the country, however, certain educators have attempted to combat this growing mediocrity through the use of gifted and talented education programs. ... Many high schools have some form of this: often, there are 3tracks:? ... The tracking method has received the most attacks. ... (Doina) There has also been little observation of the effects gifted education has on the social nature of students. ... These include: a flexible thought process, high levels of language development, accelerated pace of thought, unusual sensitivity to the expectations and feelings of others,...

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