The £1.1bn question: should we have the right to know why some schools succeed and others don’t?
My teacher friend requested information about free schools from the DfE under FoI law. After a year and a half of…
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Gove urges schools to teach British values. But what are they?
Liberal or pluralist multiculturalism?
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Grammar schools don’t help the poor – the evidence grows
Selective education works for the chosen few, but the rest do worse than under a non-selective system.
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Grammar schools widen the gap between rich and poor. Why are we still surprised by this?
Meritocracy – embodied in the grammar school system – is concerned with achieving equality between equals and permitting inequality between…
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Oxford Union speakers urged to withdraw after rape allegations against president
The women’s officer of Oxford’s student union, OUSU, and another student have started a campaign for the Oxford Union president…
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Leader: The free schools experiment spirals out of control
All resources should be concentrated on ensuring that no child is denied the basic right to an education.
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Failing the teachers, misjudging Max Clifford and Thomas Piketty’s bestselling shelf-filler
Peter Wilby’s First Thoughts column.
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Why does it take a murder for right-wingers to start treating state school teachers with respect?
If only right-wing papers and politicians were always as generous to state school teachers as they have been in the…
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