ABSTRACT
At a conference in London, Michael Fullan, from the University of Ontario and currently head of the team undertaking the external appraisal of the National Literacy and Numeracy Strategies for the DfES, told the following joke:
A professor of education was visiting the most improved and successful school in a deprived area of the city. He spent the morning observing classes, spoke to teachers and pupils and examined the school’s excellent test results. He saw well-motivated pupils reading with enthusiasm, writing with great skill and undertaking creative problem solving in maths. At the end of his visit he was asked what he thought of it all.
