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shaping its future and working to help close the achievement gap
Estelle Morris asks "Schools: Does anyone really know what we’re doing?"
"Despite improvements in overall school standards, the gap between the highest and lowest achievers has barely changed," former Education Secretary Estelle Morris asks in her National Education Trust lecture (Tuesday 4th March).
Baroness Morris of Yardley says that this gap is a cause for concern both for politicians and educationists. She also expresses her fear that: "...there is a risk that we thrash around from one initiative to another without asking ourselves some key questions: Are we using the right levers? Is the relationship between politicians and educationists as it should be? Why do others do so much better than us?" The former Education Secretary tells her audience that it is essential that we, as a society, get the answers to these questions right, if we are to move forward into the next stage of educational reform.
Baroness Morris of Yardley says that this gap is a cause for concern both for politicians and educationists. She also expresses her fear that: "...there is a risk that we thrash around from one initiative to another without asking ourselves some key questions: Are we using the right levers? Is the relationship between politicians and educationists as it should be? Why do others do so much better than us?" The former Education Secretary tells her audience that it is essential that we, as a society, get the answers to these questions right, if we are to move forward into the next stage of educational reform. 
