Free school founder Toby Young comes clean on real purpose of charter school experiment. Continue Reading
Author Archives: Melissa Benn
School Wars: round up of the reaction so far…………
Round up of reaction to School War by Melissa Benn Continue Reading
Interview on the New Schools Revolution…
…with an interesting website called New Left Direction. See what you think – a slightly different kind of interview. Continue Reading
Guess who dropped by?
Ed Miliband drops in to Melissa Benn’s signing for School Wars at Labour Party Conference 2011 Continue Reading
School Wars
What I have learned from the debate around my book so far…… Continue Reading
It’s hot out there…………
Very good Francis Beckett piece on debate at the RSA yesterday. Continue Reading
Latest news and reviews
The Verso website is doing a great job of tracking the impact of School Wars, and also summarising the main reviews so far. Below, the latest schedule for talks and debates 20-Sep School Wars New Statesman/Liberal Democrat Conference 21-Sep School Wars University of Leicester debate: Comprehensive School Education – Policy Mistake, Lost Ideal or Model… Continue Reading
School wars heat up
Things get a little heated on Woman’s Hour this morning. Me v Anne McElvoy. Decide for yourself. And Michael Gove personally attacks founders of Local Schools Network in the Evening Standard. Continue Reading
Two reviews of School Wars
Anthony Seldon in today’s Observer Andy Beckett in The Guardian yesterday Continue Reading
The Big Debate
How do we make our schools fit to face the 21st century?
Five experts explore the future of British education in this round-table discussion, as the government initiative for free schools is launched Continue Reading
Latest writing
THE CRISIS OF THE MERITOCRACY
The crisis of the meritocracy: Britain’s transition to mass education since the Second World War PETER MANDLER, 2020 Oxford: Oxford University Press 361pp, hardback, £25, ISBN 9780198840145 Cambridge historian Peter Mandler has a fundamentally optimistic story to tell about the growth of universal education in Britain over the last seventy years and one can sense… Continue reading…
Latest news & events
A Cold War Tragedy
Melissa will be in conversation with Anne Sebba about her new book, ‘Ethel Rosenberg – A Cold War Tragedy.’ Weds 15th September 2021, 5-6pm, in the Robert Graves Tent at the Wimbledon Book Festival. More information here. Continue reading…
