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Raising Achievement for All: North Lanarkshire’s Strategy for Breaking the Links Between Disadvantage and Underachievement
Author(s) -
Boyd Brian,
O’Neill Michael
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
support for learning
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.25
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1467-9604
pISSN - 0268-2141
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9604.00101
Subject(s) - disadvantage , raising (metalworking) , intervention (counseling) , sociology , law , psychology , management , political science , economics , engineering , mechanical engineering , psychiatry
In this issue we look at one local authority’s initiative for improving standards in schools. North Lanarkshire’s commitment is manifest and Brian Boyd and Michael O’Neill lay out the broad parameters of the strategy. Three elements are then dealt with in some detail, the Outward Bound project described enthusiastically by Robert Colquhoun, an early intervention programme detailed by Laura Ann Currie and her colleagues and a study support scheme outlined by Maureen Martin. Finally, Alison Cameron pulls together the various strands and asks, ‘Where do we go from here?’ North Lanarkshire is not alone in taking powerful steps to combat underachievement, and other authorities going through a similar process will take heart from this Scottish experience.