Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO says assessing a Labour leader whose mission was to smash the left must involve addressing the delusions that fuelled his rise
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The Ofsted Curriculum Reviews are well wide of the mark
This was an opportunity to update the curriculum on issues including climate change and social justice, to seize the moment and address the burning issues of the day — and it was missed, writes IAN DUCKETT
Engaging learners might best be fostered through the development of new skills, participation in any activity, knowledge and general education and enrichment, fortified by entitlement as its strong backbone — a customised, learner-centred model that is genuinely personalised and should be at the heart of the learning
Rebuilding Labour’s working-class roots and organising power is essential if the party is to recover, says MERCEDES VILLALBA
ANDREW MURRAY looks back at a damaging career marked by dishonesty, incompetence and revolting complicity in war crimes
Britain’s historic vote to leave the EU was a rejection of the political Establishment and the strategic direction pursued by Britain’s ruling class since the second world war, writes ALEX GORDON
Over 1,000 hostile US sanctions remain in place on Venezuela, while Britain continues its colonial theft of gold, writes MATT WILLGRESS
MARY DAVIS says the centrality of the Jewish community and the Communist Party to anti-fascism in the 1930s is too often overlooked on the left
THE Ofsted Curriculum Research programme is a series of reviews by Ofsted looking at the research evidence currently available about different curriculum subjects.
They are, however, considered by many educators to be far too narrow in their focus.
Something called the history Curriculum Research Review should surely be considering core curriculum concerns and connectivity across the curriculum (or at least covering major social movements like Black Lives Matter and climate change), especially at a time when the pandemic has kicked learning in the teeth and learners in the stomach and a broader and more meaningful curriculum is more important than ever.
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