Target setting fails education

By Nick Barker2009-05-01T00:00:00

Target setting in education - a target among a teacher's stationary

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Endpoint: Nick Barker has the last word

For the past 11 years that I have been a teacher I have felt frustrated and compromised by the limitations of the professional framework of my chosen vocation. The education system should exist to benefit children and must, necessarily, support teachers yet, in my opinion, it fails to do either satisfactorily.

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