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Super-heads are a super-huge mistake

How many more resignations from super-heads do we need till we realise the system of parachuting top teachers into failing schools is a recipe for corruption?

7 December 2013

9:00 AM

7 December 2013

9:00 AM

Another month, so it seems, another super-head rolls. Not that many would have noticed the latest. Greg Wallace’s resignation as executive head teacher of five schools in the east London borough of Hackney was drowned out by the hubbub surrounding the Revd Paul Flowers. Yet the departure of Wallace — much lamented by pupils and their parents, according to tributes in the local newspaper — deserves a closer look.

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