Reading Donald Clark’s blog, I get the impression that he deliberately sets out to create waves, and I’m not always convinced that he has thought a thing through before posting it. That said, he has recently pointed to a report from Frank Coffield on the future of education and skills. I have yet to read the whole report (it is some 28 pages long), but it promises to make interesting reading.

The post is well positioned to form a pigeon pair with the previous day’s take on Christine Gilbert’s report on the future of schools. Sadly his post contains no link to the original report, which can be read here. Scanning her report, she seems to be challenging a good few sacred cows.

One of the things she calls for is more involvement from parents. I’m not sure how well this will be received by said parents. For as long as the systems appears to be failing their children, I venture that parents will be reluctant to invest any more of themselves into it. If other parents are anything like me, they will be somewhat jaded by the lack of impact their involvement has had to date.