ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at the motives and agendas of key stakeholders in their initial and continuing involvement in the Closing the Gap (CtG): Test and Learn project. It focuses on training materials and interviews with respondents from: the National College of Teaching and Leadership; the Education Development Trust; the Centre for the Use of Research and Evidence in Education; and the trial coordinators in the Teaching School Alliances. The chapter looks at the policy origins of CtG based on three strands in government policy. It focuses particularly on interview data to look at the motives and agendas of the stakeholders in becoming involved in the scheme. The chapter focuses on the policy text production. It examines how the original motives, particularly of the Teaching Schools, evolved and changed over the lifetime of the scheme as they became involved in the 'complex and differentiated activities' that constitute the 'policy work' of CtG.
