Francis Gilbert

Articles by Francis Gilbert

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Gove's free schools policy is already in trouble

  • 02 June 2011
  • 3 comments

Even the parents wanting to set up free schools are frustrated.

High school miserable

  • 03 May 2010

Our political parties have been seduced by US charter schools. But are they any good? And do they make children happier?

One long Sats test

  • 20 November 2008
  • 3 comments

In this emotional indictment of our education system, the writer and teacher Francis Gilbert explains how an obsession with testing has broken enthusiasm for learning

Class war zone

  • 09 October 2008
  • 18 comments

Aggressive and disruptive behaviour blights many state schools, and the only remedy - excluding pupils - isn't working. Mentoring troubled children is more effective...

Finally, freedom

  • 06 March 2006

Education - a teacher's view. We'll learn to love the bill, argues Francis Gilbert

Novel of the week

  • 02 June 2003

Brick Lane Monica Ali Transworld/Doubleday, 413pp, £12.99 ISBN 038560484X

Autobiography 2 - The good life

  • 24 February 2003

Where Did It All Go Right?: growing up normal in the Seventies Andrew Collins Ebury Press, 320pp, £9.99 ISBN 0091886678

War wounds

  • 15 July 2002

Peacetime Robert Edric Doubleday, 357pp, £12.99 ISBN 0385602979

Lost in the funhouse

  • 08 April 2002

Salamander Thomas Wharton Flamingo, 368pp, 15.99 ISBN 0007128649

Novel of the week

  • 04 March 2002

Address Unknown Kressmann Taylor Souvenir Press, 64pp, £6.99 ISBN 0743412710

The interview

Preview: Ken Livingstone: “The world is run by monsters”

The interview

Preview: Boris Johnson: “I’ll tell you what makes me angry – lefty crap”

On Syria

Intervention in Syria won’t work, so how do we stop Assad?

GOP race so far

Infographic: Republican primary race 2012

Mind your B-sides

Mind your B-sides

Time to rethink

Time to rethink, not reassure

Who minds?

Latter Day Taint?

Alistair Darling

Alistair Darling, the Miliband dilemma and what the party must do next
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