Resources

• Interesting sites and blogs

  • Anti Academies Alliance This organisation has highlighted when the Academies programme has been unfair. It should be noted though that the LSN has no objection to Academies if they are genuinely local schools in the way they admit pupils and co-operate with their neighbours.
  • Campaign for State Education Organisation that campaigns for good state education for all.
  • Comprehensive Future Comprehensive Future is the campaign for fair admission policies in England.  The campaign is non party political and open to all.   By lobbying Government, providing evidence, informing the media and supporting local campaigns on admissions we aim to bri
  • Education by numbers
  • Education for Everyone
  • Education Review Group
  • Francis Gilbert The blog of another of this site’s founders, Francis Gilbert. Lots of interesting information and discussion on teaching and schools.
  • Guerrilla Mum
  • Help Me Investigate in Education Site investigating what is really going on behind the headlines
  • Melissa Benn Website of Melissa Benn, one of this site’s founders, covering education issues alongside other political topics.
  • Mike Baker's Blog
  • National Governors' Association
  • The Advisory Centre for Education The Advisory Centre for Education (ACE) is a national charity that provides advice and information to parents and carers on a wide range of school based issues including exclusion, admissions, special education needs, bullying and attendance. We are pass
  • The Truth About Our Schools Fiona Millar’s site looks behind the headlines about Britain’s schools for alternative arguments and intelligent debate.

• Useful articles

  • A Comprehensive Future. Quality and Equality for all Our Children
  • Academies Bill is about centralisation , not empowerment.
  • Beware private empire building masquerading as parent power
  • Beware the Tories boaters and blazers
  • Class divides our schools
  • Don't let parents ruin local schools
  • Early starts for children desperate to pass the 11 plus
  • Francis Gilbert on "free schools"
  • Francis Gilbert on American Charter schools and KIPP schools in particular – upon which the Coalition’s "free schools" are based
  • Francis Gilbert on choosing a school
  • Francis Gilbert on cooperative schools
  • Francis Gilbert on getting your child into your preferred secondary school
  • Francis Gilbert on how to get your child into Oxbridge
  • Francis Gilbert on moving a child from prep to state school
  • Francis Gilbert on private schools
  • Francis Gilbert on teachers' enhanced powers to search and detain pupils
  • Francis Gilbert on the decimation of teacher training in schools
  • Francis Gilbert on the role of parents
  • Francis Gilbert on winning your school appeal
  • Free schools – who should choose who runs them?
  • Free schools and alternative education
  • Guess what – the state sector is closing the gap.
  • How come academies are still getting their new school buildings?
  • How to stop admissions cheats
  • If Gove wants to prioritise poorer children in school admissions, he should end selection now
  • Inequality in education – an unacceptable scar
  • It wasn't school that failed Jade Goody
  • New Schools Network lacks transparency
  • Parent choice is now between visions, not schools
  • Politicians need to answer a few questions
  • Private schools should do more than just exist to earn charitable status
  • School admissions must be closely regulated
  • Schools Chief attacks 'prejudiced middle class parents'
  • Should parents be able to set up their own schools?
  • Teenagers today work harder than we did
  • Ten years of education policy:for richer or poorer?
  • The real losers in the admissions lottery
  • The recession is a chance to get the schools we want
  • What is a 'properly accountable' school?
  • Will the new academies meet the needs of special needs children?
  • Will the pupil premium really work?

• LSN in the news

  • A covert war on schools
  • Attack on Francis Gilbert and LSN on Conservative Home
  • Bankers Free School divides parents
  • Birbalsingh attacks LSN founders
  • Birbalsingh questions whether we know what we are doing
  • Francis Gilbert and Toby Young debate free schools on the Today programme
  • Francis Gilbert on teacher strikes
  • Guardian cribsheet 11.5.2011
  • Local Schools Network debates the New Schools Network LSN co-founder Fiona Millar takes on Rachel Wolf of the New Schools Network
  • LSN founders branded 'left wing nutters'
  • LSN founders critique Katharine Birbalsingh's book
  • LSN post about LGBT week at Stoke Newington School branded a 'satire' in the Spectator
  • Melissa Benn vs Toby Young on the future of our schools
  • Toby Young attacks Francis Gilbert's ideas about teaching Shakespeare
  • Toby Young on why LSN is wrong about cost of free schools
  • Why free schools will cost our children and society dear

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