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Cleverly calls on unions to take down hugely influential ‘school cuts’ site that uses ‘misleading’ statistics

Campaigners say the site influenced 871,000 voters and prevented a Conservative majority. The Statistics Authority says its calculations are wrong.

By Mark Wallace | 15 February 2019 | 45 comments

Robert Halfon: Thatcherism was wrong. We need to build social as well as economic capital. Including in our schools.

Educational traditionalists are wrong to believe that if we focus on academic rigour and high standards alone, everything else will fall into place.

By Robert Halfon MP | 13 February 2019 | 70 comments

Chloe Westley: A brilliant head teacher, a transformational city school – and the need for mavericks

Last week, I met with one such person. Her name is Katharine Birbalsingh – founder and headmistress of the Michaela Community School.

By Chloe Westley | 4 February 2019 | 38 comments

Mark Lehain: Gove was right to support headteachers over excluded pupils

Halfon is wrong to attribute the rise in school exclusion rates to any disregard for those affected.

By Mark Lehain | 1 February 2019 | 25 comments

Andrew Wood: Are school budgets being cut?

Greater clarity is needed to prevent special interest groups from presenting a misleading picture.

By Andrew Wood | 1 February 2019 | 19 comments

Robert Halfon: Excluded children should be safe and secure – not left vulnerable on our streets.

With gangs on our streets and knives in our schools, this is too big a societal issue to look at purely through the lens of our education system.

By Robert Halfon MP | 30 January 2019 | 4 comments

Sponsored Post: Nick Brook – The new Ofsted framework requires improvement

Schools have changed a lot since we were pupils. But the way in which they are held to account hasn’t moved on very much in a quarter of a century.

By Nick Brook | 17 January 2019 | 2 comments

“No-one voted for Brexit to become poorer.” Really? We vote to deny ourselves money all the time.

Security, cohesion, integration, solidarity: all are intangible. But we pay – literally – to gain them. Why single out self-government?

By Paul Goodman | 11 January 2019 | 270 comments

Lee Rowley: Brexit is big. But our politics is bigger – and I say that as a committed Leaver. Here are some ideas to boost it.

Remainers and Brexiteers alike must recognise the politicians are stuck in an ever-decreasing circle of fervour, hyperbole and hysteria.

By Lee Rowley MP | 11 January 2019 | 47 comments

John Bald: Misbehaviour in classrooms is often due to a failure to teach children to read

Behind most disorder is the idea of anxiety. A great deal of that is caused by a feeling that the pupil can’t do their work.

By John Bald | 10 January 2019 | 52 comments

The best way to broaden access at grammar schools is to build more of them

Artificial restrictions have created huge competitive pressure on places, but lowering standards is not the answer.

By Henry Hill | 15 December 2018 | 72 comments

There has been a sharp increase in the number of home-educated pupils

This is a welcome trend. School standards have improved. But parents are to be commended for taking charge, when let down by “the system”.

By Harry Phibbs | 30 November 2018 | 16 comments

John Bald: The effective teaching of multiplication tables is long overdue

Does the National Education Union want teenagers to count on their fingers? That’s the consequence if one severs mathematics education from its base in arithmetic.

By John Bald | 28 November 2018 | 41 comments

Nick Gibb: Our reforms to primary education are beginning to work. Here’s the evidence.

England achieved its highest ever score in reading in 2016, moving from joint 10th to joint 8th in the PIRLS rankings.

By Nick Gibb MP | 21 November 2018 | 5 comments

Robert Halfon: Why are white working class boys underachieving in our schools?

Rather than obsess about lack of aspiration, it is the lack of social capital that we should be focusing on.

By Robert Halfon MP | 21 November 2018 | 47 comments

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