Francis Gilbert
Articles by Francis Gilbert
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Education
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.
Education
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?
Education
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
Education
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...
Society
Finally, freedom
- 06 March 2006
Education - a teacher's view. We'll learn to love the bill, argues Francis Gilbert
Books
Novel of the week
- 02 June 2003
Brick Lane Monica Ali Transworld/Doubleday, 413pp, £12.99 ISBN 038560484X
Books
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
Books
Lost in the funhouse
- 08 April 2002
Salamander Thomas Wharton Flamingo, 368pp, 15.99 ISBN 0007128649
Books
Novel of the week
- 04 March 2002
Address Unknown Kressmann Taylor Souvenir Press, 64pp, £6.99 ISBN 0743412710
