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What Shall We Tell The Children?

An interview with National Curriculum Council Chairman David Pascall.

The National Curriculum Council is the body that decides what should be taught in state schools in England. Amid talk of a moral crisis in schools, it recently published a discussion document dealing with spiritual and moral education. The document starts by describing what it means by spiritual development and moral development, then goes on to suggest how schools should be promoting such development in their pupils. In its final section, the document outlines briefly how the progress of schools in these areas will be inspected and assessed.

The document immediately caused great controversy.

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