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This blog was original posted on Andrew Adonis’s own blog Labour created academies to improve state education radically. We are proud of their success and we stand resolutely behind the sponsors, parents and local communities who have created and sustained more »

The full text of Stephen Twigg’s speech today at the RSA Stephen Twigg MP, Labour’s Shadow Education Secretary, said today at the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts: Thank you to Matthew and the team at the RSA for more »

  This blog was originally posted on Joe’s own blog. The case against performance related pay has now been made.  While, the case will go unheeded, and it is doubtful that greater energy or coherence would have changed that fact, more »

This piece was originally posted on John Tomsett’s own blog I have been a teacher of English for 24 years, a Headteacher for 9 years and, at the age of 48, this much I know about bridging the independent-state school divide. more »

This blog was originally posted on LabourList Stephen Twigg, Labour’s Shadow Education Secretary is one of the more thoughtful and pragmatic individuals to hold this vitally important brief for some time. To his credit Stephen has been out and about more »

My name is Emma Hardy and I am a passionate supporter of both the NUT and the Labour Party and though it may seem to some that this is a contradiction I want to prove that it is not. Neither more »

This is a cross post from Ramblings of a Teacher Having posted this: Gove is realising that the NC is a very blunt tool for achieving his (not all unreasonable) intentions. But blunt tools do much damage! — Michael Tidd more »

Is cheating endemic in our schools? This anonymous teacher offers a view: In February this year, a survey of Teach First graduates found that respondents had experienced the pressure, or indeed the command, to cheat during GCSE assessments. In January, more »

This article was originally published by Progress The Department for Education’s vision is for a highly educated society in which opportunity is more equal for children and young people no matter what their background or family circumstances. I recently presented more »

This is a cross-post from Scenes From The Battleground I find much of the contribution from politicians to the education debate in this country utterly pointless. So many political types simply do not realise how the system works or what more »