‘Ten Facts You Need to Know About Academies’. That’s the latest Department for Education press release .
The DfE tries to dispel what it...
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English children are now the most heavily tested in the world – and a revolt is building within weeks of the...
Read moreI have been reading your interview with the Guardian on Friday, and I'm concerned and not a little bit angry. Many of the views you expressed in...
Read moreAnother day, another press release. On Wednesday morning, the DfE released a statement announcing the passing of the Education and Adoption Bill...
Read moreJerry Roodhouse, a Lib Dem councillor in Rugby, Warwickshire, has condemned plans to use playing fields to rehouse the existing...
Read moreYesterday, the Guardian published an excellent piece by journalist John Harris on the death of creativity and enjoyment of learning our state...
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LSN readers may have been a little puzzled by headlines yesterday, including in the Guardian, proclaiming ‘Soaring state schools...
Read moreAccording to press reports this weekend Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife Samantha are considering sending their son to...
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This book is a truly collaborative effort, a distillation of the thinking and writing of...
Read moreThe launch last week of LSN’s first book The Truth About Our Schools at Goldsmiths, University of London, covered in detail here , provided a...
Read more‘It's hardly surprising that most people have never heard of RSCs and even those who have are unclear about their role,’ Neil...
Read moreA popular head teacher killed herself after shortly after inspectors said her school was Inadequate, an inquest has heard.
Carol Ann...
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A father and daughter have written this piece for us about their experience of life in a selective local authority. I don’t want to denigrate my...
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