Global Majority Contributors to Educational Excellence
The following keynote address was delivered during the launch of the Black Teachers Network, on June 24th, 2009, at the London Centre for Leadership in Learning. We stand here at a historical moment,...
View ArticleMoving English Forward?
I find this latest Ofsted report both interesting and worrying. It comes at a time when there is a focus on the disproportionate number of black young people unemployed and the number getting 3 A...
View ArticleGus John calls for regrading of 2012 GCSEs
Professor Gus John joins a number of eminent academics and campaigners for children’s education rights in calling for a regrading of papers in this Summer’s examinations fiasco. Gus John says: I...
View ArticlePlay the accordion with Sir Michael Wilshaw
Sir Michael Wilshaw, head of Ofsted, is passionately committed to closing the gap between high performing schools and those struggling to deliver meaningful and saleable schooling outcomes to children....
View ArticleEducating the British: Gove, choice and free schools
Much has been made about the spat between deputy prime minister Nick Clegg and education secretary Michael Gove regarding the latter’s plan to liberate Free Schools and increase their numbers by...
View ArticleMichael Gove is running Britain’s department for inequality
The political spat over free schools is diverting attention away from the fact that our most vulnerable children are being failed. Much has been made of the spat between deputy prime minister Nick...
View ArticleIndependence in Schooling, Except from Gove!
There is a stirring in the soul of Michael Gove that does not augur well for the nation’s children and the schools to which parents are legally bound to send them. The Secretary of State appears to...
View ArticlePanic over ‘Islamists’ in Birmingham schools is blatant racism
The following article was published by Socialist Worker on April 22nd, 2014. A wave of Islamophobic panic has followed claims that “Islamists” are plotting to take over Birmingham schools. And in the...
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