Last Monday’s Newsnight showed an interview with a head of a special school whose career had come perilously close to a premature end when he was accused of assaulting a boy who had to be restrained and fought back. In theory the boy’s parents had trusted the school, or the school system, to provide …
With the arrival of a new grammar school in Kent, arguments about selective education that have echoed throughout my lifetime are very much with us again because we have long ignored an important truth. Parents are never obliged to send children to academically selective schools and such schools know that they have been chosen because the …
Intelligence Squared On October 1st the motion for debate was, “Let’s end the tyranny of the test – relentless school testing demeans education.” Tristram Hunt – until recently Shadow Secretary of State for Education. He sees the purpose of education as liberation, providing social continuity so that the community sustains and passes on what has …
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