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7th June 1996, 1:00am

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‘This is the burial of the way in which the Plowden Report has been interpreted in some schools. It is the burial of a concept of primary education that says that, in some mysterious way, the innate potential of each child has to be unlocked. It’s the burial of those misplaced understandings, misunderstandings of what education is all about’

Chris Woodhead, chief inspector, on Monday’s Panorama.

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