The flipside of the blame-teachers argument is the great-teachers argument.

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David Burrowes is keen that the committee also hears from professional groups who might be affected by the bill: registrars, teachers and so on, and his side of the argument are planning a drive to make radical amendments to the Bill when it returns to the Commons for report stage, so they will be attempting to put down markers on the key issues.

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The argument, in Britain at least, has begun to shift to teachers' methods in the classroom.

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The move is symptomatic of truly bad management and is yet another argument for giving parents true control over schools via vouchers, scholarships or charter schools (where teachers and parents start a new institution, free of bureaucratic rules and regulations).

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