Category: Journals
Forum 67.1 Spring 2025: In whose interest?
Forum’s newly-published Spring number addresses the way teachers engage responsibly with controversial issues. Introducing it, Patrick Yarker considers whether teachers’ unions really do put children last.
MORECall for papers – Soil
Category: Journals, New Formations
"Grounded Futures: The Poetics and Politics of Soil in a Changing World"
MORECurriculum 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.
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