Graham Brown-Martin on what is driving the Department for Education

A timely article on the state of the UK Department for Education, its policies and practices, from Graham Brown-Martin of The Revolution…

The government position on education since Michael Gove, now championed by Greening and Nick Gibb, Secretary of State for School Standards, has been firmly fixed on dismantling progressive, personalised, learner-centred education. Instead, government ideologues, their advisers and think tanks, have driven through retrograde policies that seek to make school education both teacher-centred and teacher-proof.

Read the full article here: Jobs for the boys | Medium

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