Alan Dyson, professor of education at Manchester University and the leader of a government-funded evaluation of the initiative, warned that a slower, more coherent approach was needed to ensure that extended schools achieve success.
He told a conference in Manchester that no conclusive research had been conducted that showed the model had achieved its goal where it had been attempted overseas.
Dyson, who carried out research for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation last year on schools' work in area regeneration, said: "In some cases schools are going off like roman candles, with lots of interesting things happening, but these are not very coherent and well co-ordinated with what other families and communities in the area are doing.
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