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By Andrew Goodwyn

This publication will to aid pupil and practising academics to appreciate the problems surrounding literacy, where of transition in scholars' lives, and to think convinced in dealing with the nationwide Literacy procedure.

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Chapter 2 - Literacy 26/4/02 11:58 am Page 45 SECONDARY SCHOOLS AND THE NATIONAL LITERACY STRATEGY 45 The background It has become a cliché to talk about the fast pace of educational change but it is crucial none the less to reflect on the impact of a heavily politicized set of ‘reforms’ as these help to explain current developments and, potentially at least, to put them into a more comprehensible perspective. Such a review may also encourage teachers to be confident in their own judgement as they observe how frequently top-down reforms prove relatively short-lived and ineffectual.

Indeed, interview data in particular reveals the myriad ways that agents plan to overcome anticipated ‘resistance’. We feel that most of the agents see resistance as essentially ignorance rather than knowledgeable subversion; there is a Chapter 1 - Literacy 32 26/4/02 11:54 am Page 32 IMPROVING LITERACY AT KS2 AND KS3 constant tendency in their discourse which reveals their mission to enlighten. Part of their mission is to help teachers adopt the consensual definition of school-centric literacy.

The National Literacy Strategy In August 1997, the Literacy Task Force, set up in May 1996 by David Blunkett whilst he was Shadow Secretary of State for Education and Employment, published its final report, The Implementation of the National Literacy Strategy (DfEE, 1997a). The new government (the first Labour government for 17 years) made literacy a priority with the promise to raise standards so that 80 per cent of 11-year-olds would reach level 4 and above in Key Stage 2 English tests by 2002.

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