Michael Gove

We have a long way to go before our children get the kind of education they deserve

Injecting choice into our education system has raised standards in our schools. More radical reforms would improve them further

Inspectors trust good schools to control pupils’ behaviour. So why do they try to impose child-centred teaching? It’s time for reform

Michael Gove’s proposal that teachers be rewarded financially for achieving targets undermines the very ethos of the profession

Tristram Hunt found Education Under Siege a useful book. It’s nothing more than the dying groans of the blob

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It seeped into every classroom and subsumed any attempt to destroy it. But the education establishment has met its match in Michael Gove

Despite the fearful losses we should not shrink from celebrating our forebears’ decision to resist German aggression 100 years ago

Our most ambitious state schools are successfully challenging the suffocating idea that social class determines educational success