Joe Baron: The case of Starbank School teaches us one thing: Ofsted can’t be trusted

A place where teachers have been moved to strike for their own personal safety has been rated ‘Outstanding’ since 2012.

Joe Baron: The campaign to tear down statues of British heroes is not about balance – it’s pure propaganda

It’s one thing to acknowledge the fact that all human beings are nuanced and flawed. It’s quite another to censor our past.

Joe Baron: Obama’s foreign policy closes on a typically low note

The President has overseen a serious waning of American power overseas, for all that he has limned it with beautiful speeches.

Joe Baron: Restorative Justice is an insult to teachers

If teachers should not hold dominion over children, then, taken to its logical conclusion, surely parents should be prohibited from making decisions on behalf of their kids, too.

Joe Baron: Banning tag and rugby tackling is stopping boys being boys

In no place has the assault on masculinity been more prevalent, more zealously pursued and more enthusiastically executed, than in our schools.

Joe Baron: We must halt the relentless march of the Thought Police

Pupils and teachers face ridicule and ostracism for so much as uttering a single word of support for the Conservative Party.

Joe Baron: SEN. IEP. EBD. FSM. ADD. Enough! Say no, no, no to this monstrous regiment of acronyms

It’s time to stop innovating, think inside the box – and learn to speak English again.

Joe Baron: Inadequate headteachers are damaging our children

The BBC’s latest experiment, bringing Chinese teachers into the classroom, reveals the true source of bad behaviour.

Joe Baron: It’s vital that our children study Dead White Men

Why the new National Curriculum is a good thing.

Joe Baron: Will Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s selfless, far-sighted gift to humanity ever be repeated?

The collective aims of education are being subordinated to raw, untrammelled individualism.

Joe Baron: Where are the social reformers who will speak up for abused teachers?

A collective unwilligness to exclude violent pupils permanently is bad for them, their fellow students, their students – and teachers, whose safety is at risk.

Joe Baron: Schools should direct boys’ natural aggression and competitiveness, not just accept misbehaviour

Guardianista wisdom is that violence is natural in young men, so there’s nothing you can do. That’s claptrap.

Joe Baron: It’s Christmas! So all must have presents. And all must also have prizes…

Reflections on a school end of term “Celebration Assembly”.

Joe Baron: Gove – not the great Education Secretary his admirers claim

He deserves much credit, but his reforms aren’t the game-changer some would claim.

Joe Baron: Head teachers are allowing their best students to be victimised and abused

They are unable or unwilling to extend the same compassion to them as they do to the worst ones.