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Editor’s Note
By Jason Cowley - 16 May 18:30

21st-century educational apartheid, the new few and our weird weather.

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Education – Labour’s next Clause 4?
Education – Labour’s next Clause 4?
By John Whitting QC - 14 May 14:39

The left needs a new education strategy.

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Inching towards consensus on social mobility
By Rafael Behr - 02 May 13:47

A cross-party report describes Britain's failure to offer children reliable routes out of poverty but stays coy on inequality and austerity.

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Right to reply: free schools are not divisive
By Toby Young - 18 April 18:40

There is no evidence that free schools will damage their neighbours.

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Why Labour should not embrace free schools
By Lisa Nandy - 18 April 15:00

Andrew Adonis is wrong to argue that free schools do not favour the better off.

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For-profit schools are the Tories' real agenda
By Trevor Fisher - 29 March 11:37

The barriers to profit-making by free schools are likely to be removed in time.

David Cameron at the City of London Academy in Southwark.
Right to reply: in defence of academies
By Jonathan Hill - 23 March 16:22

Academies are transforming education in the most deprived communities.

The education debate — School Wars
By Melissa Benn - 22 March 15:05

Melissa Benn reports over eight months from the front line in the battle for Britain’s education.

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Mehdi Hasan: Ten things about academies
Ten things they don't tell you about academies
By Mehdi Hasan - 22 March 15:05

Ten inconvenient truths about the academy revolution.

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Labour should support free schools — it invented them
By Andrew Adonis - 15 March 9:13

The party will get back into government by having a better plan for the future, not by opposing changes that are working well.

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