The 21st Century Learning Initiative
Promoting a Vision, Knowledge, Experience and a Network
What price 'Intelligence'?
Response to Tony Little's book 'An Intelligent Person’s Guide to Education'
This short monograph was written by Neil Richards, a Trustee of the 21st Century Learning Initiative in response to the publication of Tony Little’s book, An Intelligent Person’s Guide to Education.
Battling for the Soul of Education
Moving beyond school reform to educational transformation:
The findings and recommendations of 3 decades of synthesis
Download from battlingforthesoulofeducation.org
Responsibility
A Complete and Generous Education
As the General Election edges closer two Reports, “Liberal Education and the National Curriculum” published by Civitas, and the University of Bristol’s Transition from Primary to Secondary School are likely to catch the attention of politicians.
The Initiative’s Theory of Change
For all those reading the Briefing Paper for Parliamentarians, or the Book Overschooled but Undereducated, it may be helpful to explain The Initiative’s understanding of what it takes to bring about change. These ideas will become ever more relevant as the country gets closer to the General Election.
Advice Worth Taking
With privilege comes responsibility I was at a Memorial Service last Friday in a village near Stow-on-the-Wold in the midst of delightful Cotswold country. It was a glorious afternoon, blue skies with a few scudding clouds, but nothing to herald a return to the previous depressing days – warm, but not too hot, and the […]
Adolescence; a critical Evolutionary Adaptation
This Paper has been written in response to an increasing concern that formal education, especially at the secondary level, is failing to meet the needs and expectations of young people for an appropriate induction into adult life and responsibilities.
Submission to RTZ for financial support for Education 2000
To fund the Initiative applications had to be written to a variety of sponsors
Presentation to business people, and sponsors; the statement prepared for the CBI conference
Can we abolish failure?
The Confederation of British Industry Speech
Confederation of British Industry (CBI) National Conference 2nd November 1987 Presentation on Education 2000 by John Abbott, Director of the Trust, and interdiction by Brian Corby, Chief Executive of The Prudential Corporation. Young people are a Nation’s most precious resource. On the quality of their education our future – our pensions if you like – […]
The Hertfordshire Project
The official 6 page document, issued to everyone within the town, just as Education 2000’s first project was starting
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