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Anastasia de Waal
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Anastasia de Waal is Deputy Director and Director of Family and Education at the think tank Civitas. Anastasia is a qualified primary school teacher, specifically trained for inner-city teaching and with experience of teaching in London’s East End. A regular contributor to broadcast and print media, her publications include Inspection, Inspection, Inspection, Second Thoughts on the Family and Inspecting the Inspectorate. Anastasia is Chair of Family Lives and a board member of Women’s Parliamentary Radio and recently launched the pilot for a new charitable project, the Visiting Women at Work Programme, which takes inner-city primary school girls to meet women in their workplace.

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A-levels: Higher Grades, Missing the Point?

Posted 19 August 2011 | 01:00:00 (EST)

August in England may not guarantee sun but it never fails to deliver the annual A-level pantomime: highest ever grades shot down by retorts of lowest ever standards. This year's record results, the 29th year of improvement, are already swiftly accruing the usual scepticism around 'standards'.

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Is the Rise in SATS Results Actually bad News?

Posted 5 August 2011 | 01:00:00 (EST)

Results of the latest Sats tests, taken by children at the end of primary school, show that attainment has risen. A rise understood to mean improving primary schools and better educated kids. But what if this increase in results actually proves the reverse? What if higher test performance has entailed...

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