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‘How to win the argument against grammar schools’. Sam Freedman, former advisor to Michael Gove, gave an impassioned response at the ResearchEd...
Read moreThe new Conservative Prime Minister has indicated her willingness to allow the creation of new grammar schools and selection at age 11 in the...
Read moreFor one month only, 16 August to 16 September 2016, there are five copies of our book, The Truth about Our Schools: Exposing the Myths Exploring...
Read moreFollowing the 2012 success of our comprehensive Olympians who won 14 of our 18 individual gold medal awards, as these games draw to a close, so...
Read moreAs protests grow at so many aspects of current policy - from an impoverished curriculum to the diminishment of local democracy, the erosion of...
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Although this could be one my most important articles in relation...
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Phasing out private and grammar schools in the UK is essential if the increasingly cross party call for ‘equality of opportunity for all’ is...
Read moreI am writing this shortly after the Chancellor, George Osborne, made his March 2016 budget announcement that all the remaining Local Authority...
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LSN readers may have been a little puzzled by headlines yesterday, including in the Guardian, proclaiming ‘Soaring state schools...
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This book is a truly collaborative effort, a distillation of the thinking and writing of...
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The 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 moreMy daughter is in Year 11 at a non-selective school in Kent. She will take her GCSEs this year and is working incredible hard with her revision....
Read moreI am bitterly disappointed with Morgan’s decision on Kent, it is weak and unthinking in terms of how many more children will have to be divided...
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