All the evidence shows voters want Labour to shift to the left — but initial signs from Andy Burnham are worrying on that front, cautions DIANE ABBOTT
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There's a growing desire to throw off the rigid shackles of Tory educational dogma
Labour has opened up discussion around a national education strategy, and by engaging as a movement we can develop new radical ideas for the future, argues KEN JONES
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ANDY McDONALD MP says Labour must show it is capable of delivering real improvements in people’s lives — bold action is required
ANGUS REID and ANDREW JOHNSTONE report on an initiative that we must take this summer
ALLISON FEWTRELL on what Plaid Cymru's historic election victory means for the communities being failed by Wales’s housing crisis, and four things the new government can do right now
France Insoumise MP JEROME LEGAVRE speaks to Christophe Domec on building the Europe-wide peace movement that came together in the International Conference Against War last weekend
At last weekend’s International Conference Against War, LINDA PENTZ GUNTER talks to the Palestinian physician and politician about the struggles ahead to achieve a truly free Palestine
ENGLAND’S school system, the product of the Education Reform Act (ERA), is 30 years old this year.
The ERA’s biggest claim was that it would raise standards. Through a mix of market pressures and state direction, it would deliver schools from the grip of ineffective teachers and incompetent local authorities. It would make England’s school system “world class.”
How are these claims looking now? From several perspectives, they don’t look too robust.
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