Steve Jobs and Bill Gates controlled their children’s access to iPads and smartphones. All parents should be following their example

A free school head advises the Education Secretary to abolish Ofsted and cut the burden of red tape if she wants the state system to stop failing pupils

Michael Gove was hated because people prefer the bigotry of low expectations to fixing Britain's education system. But he was right

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

'In 1987 the majority of England cricketers were state-educated. Now most professional sportsmen are educated privately — including black children'

‘We used to point to the fact that teachers didn’t know grammar. Now the inspectors judging the teachers don’t know it either’

'Gove has restored ordinary rights to classroom teachers. Yet the unions hate the man who made it possible for teachers to breathe again'

‘In New York schools where they teach a core knowledge curriculum, some of the poorest children are discussing Shakespeare at four years old’

‘There is such a shortage of places in London that schools will soon have to start teaching in shifts—as they are forced to in developing countries’

'It is only when one tries to do good that one discovers just how many people will try to prevent one's sucess'

Why should ethnic minorities be castigated for voting Conservative when the Left have betrayed them educationally?

‘The madness of the education debate has reached a point where NUT members would prefer to see a school building sold to a capitalist developer rather than see a free school succeed’

‘The opposition to free schools can be intimidating—you’d think we were building nuclear bombs, not setting up a school’

Low academic standards are producing undisciplined young people. The English Baccalaureate (EBac) offers a renewed rigour

The teaching unions don’t care about teachers or children. They care only about themselves. The result is a broken education system

With the State System failing our children, only free schools can provide an affordable, quality education for all

The education system's emphasis on skills and "learning to learn" denies the truth that acquiring knowledge teaches children to think

Thrown out of her school after addressing the Conservative Party conference, this teacher explains her change of mind