While most people are cutting back on smoking or alcohol, Balls should give up launching new initiatives, suggested John Dunford, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders and Maggie Atkinson, president of the Association of Directors of Children's Services.
Dunford said: "Ed Balls' New Year's resolution should be to give schools and colleges a year with no new initiatives, so that they have a fighting chance of integrating and assessing the countless initiatives launched in 2008." Atkinson urged Balls to slow down: "maintaining a steady pace of improvements will be more effective than a barrage of initiatives that leaves everyone involved feeling dizzy," she said.
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