Alistair Jarvis CBE’s Post

Check out the latest paper from the Center for Higher Education Policy and Practice (CHEPP) that evaluates the landscape of workforce partnerships in higher education. https://lnkd.in/eQGJ86C5

In his latest article, Nigel Milligan delves into the essential role of service providers in schools, emphasising the need for alignment with the institution's vision. Learn how challenging the status quo can lead to innovative solutions and efficient resource utilisation https://lnkd.in/e5Ngm2BE

Attention State Leaders! Check out this policy brief from National Association of State Leaders in Early Education, The Science of Reading: What Does it Mean for State Leaders in Early Education? https://rpb.li/id0U

Is public education efficient? In my latest study, I explore this question by examining public high schools across New Hampshire. I define efficiency as 'the ability to meet core educational missions' and determine that despite facing challenges, public high school education in the state is indeed efficient in comparison to its private sector counterpart. Check out the study below for more insights.

I am very much against minimum service levels (MSL). I would like to make 4 points which I think are related. 1: public sector 'reforms' are presented an politically neutral when it seems obvious that this is far from the case. 2: since the 1980s the predominate ideology has been neoliberalism where education is in effect seen to operate in a market. One of the side effects of this is that aspects such as 'competition' and 'choice' become central. In such a milieu it makes sense that teachers are reduced to 'efficient' technicians (Smyth and Shacklock) . The less they can be paid and less rights they have the more 'efficient' the system and the more teachers can be exploited. 3, in any society I think there have to be checks and balances and my interpretation of MSL is that it is a further attempt to erode worker rights. This government have a terrible record on worker rights and we, the citizens, are now reaping the results of this. The politicians who have done this have no 'skin in the game'. I never see my MP in the chairs at the surgery! 4, for me MSL is a distraction from the real issue that the state education sector has been effectively privatised since the 1980s and so education is now seen, in policy, as an economic good.   In this I agree with Giroux (2014:111) who says , "The neo-liberal state no longer invests in solving social problems; it now punishes those who are caught in a downward spiral of its economic policies. Under such circumstances, the social state is transformed into a corporate and punishing state. This causes the social contract between the state and the citizen is broken, and social guarantees for youth as well as civic obligations to the future vanish from the agenda of public concern. Similarly, as market values supplant civic values, it becomes increasingly difficult to ‘translate private worries into public issues and conversely to discern public issues in private troubles’. Alcoholism, homelessness, poverty and illiteracy among other issues are not seen as social but as individual problems- matters of character, individual fortitude personal responsibility." 

In our latest Faculty in Focus video, Associate Professor Dan Player explores why defining a problem is essential to public policy analysis, using the educator shortage in K-12 schools as a case study. Watch the full video here: https://lnkd.in/e5vs2GY7

For those of you interested in school library staffing and the factors that impact decision making this document is a must read. Whilst entirely US based, there are many factors that apply to the Australian context as well. https://lnkd.in/gAaxPZHV

⏰ Deadline extended! You now have until 1st March to share your experiences around diversity in secondary school libraries, as part of anonymous research to recognise progress, acknowledge challenges and evidence how policy has turned into action. Take the short survey here 👉🏼 https://buff.ly/3uBVwrN

Powerful examples of data sharing, data access, and data use at the national, university, and school district levels to understand post-pandemic learning recovery were highlighted at last night’s Harvard Graduate School of Education Askwith Education Forum. The last time I published about sharing education data was in my former role at Harvard – 11 years ago. The last time I practiced data sharing was this week in my current role at Jumpstart. Being back at Harvard and reflecting on what I thought about #EdData 11 years ago, what I do with data now, and how the landscape of education data (and results) has changed in the interim was so meaningful. The results from the Education Recovery Scorecard show large and historically important post-pandemic growth – and lags. The data exist, are publicly accessible, and can be and are being acted on. It is in that action where we will see benefits for children, schools, and society. 

Nearly 190 empirical studies have been published regarding the effectiveness of private school choice programs. Our team at EdChoice has gone through all of them and created an in-depth review in this sixth edition of the 123s of School Choice. Dive into the full report! https://lnkd.in/gWjSh8jj