Education Research and Development in England - Background Report
England has the opportunity in the next five to ten years to achieve high standards across an entire system of 24,000 schools and over 7 million school students. The foundations for progress have been laid in recent years. Expenditure on education is increasing and after four years of progress with some hard evidence of improved outcomes, a start has been made. The challenge ahead remains substantial. For example, a major challenge ahead is ensuring the recruitment and retention of enough teachers of quality, in spite of the fact that more teachers started teaching in schools last September than for seventeen years. Educational research and development has a key role in enhancing the status of the teaching profession through developing teachers as an evidence-informed profession.
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