What is school for?
The struggle for control of the national curriculum is a fight for the soul of English education.
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The special needs trap
What one parent’s experience reveals about a system on the brink of collapse.
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The “success story” of Tory education reform is a mirage
False claims about academies’ performance are obscuring the ambition of Labour’s Schools Bill.
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Letter of the week: Bring in the big guns
Write to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.
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Katharine Birbalsingh: “They’re going to destroy our schools”
The outspoken headteacher believes Bridget Phillipson’s reforms are an attack on educational freedom. She is ready for the fight.
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Closing Britain’s privilege gap
The case for ending the effective state subsidy of private schools is overwhelming.
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Can Labour’s £315m school breakfast plan save a generation?
Without supporting the 900,000 children below the poverty-line who are ineligible for free lunchtime food, the policy risks being undermined.
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Class war: the battle over private schools
Labour must recover its radical tradition and close Britain’s education privilege gap.
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Bridget Phillipson is planning a fightback
The Education Secretary knows she needs to make a clearer case for her school reforms.
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Are Scotland and England swapping places on education?
As Labour rolls back academy freedoms, Scottish parties are showing interest in a different approach.
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How racist are British schools?
Kalwant Bhopal presents school as a terrible place to be an ethnic minority in her book Race and Education. The…
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Britain’s exam delusion
Assessment has eclipsed learning in an education system that fails students and worsens inequality.
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Katharine Birbalsingh’s prayer ban is a victory for tolerance
The Michaela School head teacher is right: secular measures prevent, rather than inflame, religious prejudice.
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The price of private education
For as long as boarding school survivors govern Britain, they will inflict their own pain on the nation.
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The Parliament Brief: will the new schools “phone ban” keep children safe?
Rachel de Souza, the children’s commissioner for England, told MPs that most headteachers already restrict the use of devices.
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The lesson Katharine Birbalsingh can’t teach
Britain’s strictest headteacher is preparing children for a society that no longer exists.
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Ofsted must change if it is to regain teachers’ trust
The coroner has ruled in the death of Ruth Perry, but serious questions remain for the schools inspectorate.
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The SNP can’t explain away Scotland’s schools catastrophe
Under the SNP, pupil performance in maths, science and reading has plummeted.
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Demolition Britain – where new-build schools are too dangerous for pupils
Schools under two years old are being condemned while students shiver in tents or fall behind on lessons at home.
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The great private school con
They no longer have a stranglehold on Oxbridge and would lose tax breaks under Labour. So what is elite education…