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June 16, 2014
A new flagship ‘free school’ is planning to replace teachers with computers for some day-to-day lessons, it was claimed today.
One of England’s biggest academy chains – Ark Schools – wants to set up a new ‘blended learning’ model – which will see children taught over the internet for large chunks of the day.
The new ‘e-school’ will be known as the Ark Pioneer Academy and is due to open in London from September 2016 as part of the government’s free schools scheme, according to the teaching journal the Times Education Supplement.
Charter schools in the US – which were an inspiration for the Education Secretary Michael Gove’s free schools programme – have already tried and tested similar radical schemes with some success.
One called Rocketship pioneered the model and now operates nine schools in Milwaukee and San Jose, teaching 5,000 pupils who spend a quarter of their school day online.
Rocketship chief executive Preston Smith said that computers had allowed his organisation to ‘really rethink the school day’.
‘We have fewer teachers than a traditional school serving the same number of students.’
By slashing the number of staff, the school can plough the savings into the remaining teachers’ salaries – therefore better teachers.
Mr Smith said this allowed him to pay teachers up to 50 per cent more than nearby schools. He added that he wanted teachers earning more than $100,000 ‘as quickly as possible’
Mr Smith said: ‘If your kids are performing incredibly well, and you have eliminated the achievement gap in your classroom, and your kids are on a par with the most affluent kids in the country, we should be paying you incredibly well because you are doing amazing work.
