Category: Journals
Curriculum and Assessment Review: trade-offs and challenges
Alpesh Maisuria reports on a recent All-Party Parliamentary Group meeting at which Professor Becky Francis gave an update on the progress of the government’s Curriculum and Assessment Review
MOREFuller disclosure
Labour’s modest moves against academisation have upset Katharine Birbalsingh, head of Michaela Community School. Patrick Yarker fills in some background to the school and spotlights the reactionary myth-making its headteacher deals in.
MOREOpening the book: in memory of Jane Ogborn
Patrick Yarker pays tribute to a former colleague whose work developing ‘alternative’ English Literature exams helped students become wiser readers.
MORECall for papers: Communist Festivals
Category: Journals, Twentieth Century Communism
Contributions are invited for a special issue. Abstract deadline: May 2025
MOREBecause we value our children’s future…
In advance of next month’s Caroline Benn Memorial Lecture, Jane Martin commends Caroline Benn’s staunch advocacy of comprehensive education and her sustained adherence to its ideals.
MOREReady the ground
Ahead of the Caroline Benn Memorial Lecture, Patrick Yarker argues the need to move beyond a discourse of fixed ‘ability’ in the long struggle for a comprehensive education service so powerfully advocated by Caroline Benn
MORECrossing the border
The Summer number of Forum, whose theme is ‘Changing Times’, is introduced by Patrick Yarker
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