Robert Halfon: Skills, social justice, standards, and support for teachers. A four-part manifesto for the new Prime Minister.

By extending the ladder of opportunity to those who currently lack it, e can ensure the next generation climbs it.

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.

Pauline Latham: Why I am voting for McVey

Esther is one of the rare politicians I’ve met who is able to communicate authentically with voters in all parts of the country.

Abolishing SATs is a policy designed to please teaching unions, not help school pupils

The evidence suggests it would be a damaging mistake, but Labour is pressing on regardless.

The defectors are wrong. The Conservatives aren’t shifting to the right. They are mired in the mixed middle.

No less than the ERG, the group of three sees everything through the prism of Brexit – which, let it not be forgotten, they voted to support themselves.

Interview. “Look, this is a Christian country”, says Hinds. But he adds that the cap on new faith schools’ admissions should stay.

At times, says the Education Secretary, the post he holds requires “a bold and vociferous and constant presence”. But “at other times less so”.

Mark Lehain: Rayner says Labour will reject Gove’s school reforms – but what would they establish in their place?

Families and teachers deserve some details on what is being proposed in place of free schools and academies.

The reaction to the NHS pay offer shows that relaxing austerity will not be as easy as some imagine

It might please nurses, but provokes new pay demands from teachers, doctors and soldiers. Nor would a hypothecated ‘NHS Tax’ make the issue go away.

Henry Smith: We must not lose momentum on supporting early years development

We need to train more teachers if the Government is to ensure that every child has the opportunity to fulfil their potential.

John Bald: How to stop the nonsense in teacher training

Give trainee teachers much more experience of working with individual children, so that they learn to focus on the person in front of them, and not on what someone else tells them to do.

Kathleen Leslie: The SNP is to blame for the shortage of Scottish teachers

Chaotic implementation of a new curriculum and politicised, bureaucratic systems of inspection and regulation have caused dismay.

J.P.Floru: How to inoculate your children against socialism

What can parents do? Avoid reading Robin Hood as a bedtime story? I asked around, and came up with a few answers.

Sophie Sandor: You want better state schools? Then let them make a profit.

If everyone had the opportunity to attend a private school then, by definition, they couldn’t be elite.

John Bald: A visit to Michaela

Pupils enter the dining hall smiling and loudly reciting Shelley’s Ozymandias.

Ryan Shorthouse: The Tory manifesto should offer loans for childcare and retraining, and better pay for teachers

This second piece of a mini-series on what should be in the manifesto argues that May must show those on modest incomes the good that Government can do.