At the end of last year the Local Schools Network website passed one million unique viewers, in the years since our launch. Here are our top ten articles over that six year period. Click on the headlines to see the originals.
It is no surprise that Gove got on so well with Donald Trump, as both share a love of "alternative facts". One of this site's innocent pleasures used to be finding how many fibs we could spot each time Gove opened his mouth. My colleague Janet once found ten falsehoods or exaggerations in a single Gove speech. This article, about Gove's false claim to have visited primaries with high levels of special needs - but where every child achieves the national target - is our most read, with over 120,000 views.
Yes, our second most popular article is about the joys of the much maligned media studies. First published in 2010, this has remained consistently in the top ten most read posts each and every month for at least the last two years.
Of all my articles comparing the performance of maintained schools and sponsored academies, this is the most popular and the only one to make it into the top ten.
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