Opinion: Policy

The keys to success for Labour’s RISE teams

Here's what the government's new regional teams can learn from previous policy successes in school improvement

JL Dutaut
Mel Ainscow
Opinion: Policy

The cost of our dysfunctional school meals system

More and more families are getting in debt to their schools to feed their children, reveals a new survey

JL Dutaut
Georgina Burt
Opinion: Policy

How Labour can get regional improvement teams right

Regional improvement teams are an understandable effort to spread capacity more equally, but the policy faces a number of...

JL Dutaut
Sir David Carter
Opinion: Policy

Why RISE teams could be this government’s biggest educational legacy

A policy that picks up on the lasting impact of the London Challenge and the best MATs is good...

JL Dutaut
Ed Dorrell
Opinion: Policy

Labour can’t be all talk and no action on oracy

Given that children in the lowest income group start school with language skills 19 months behind their wealthier peers...

JL Dutaut
Ayesha Baloch
Opinion: Policy

How Labour can deliver a truly inclusive education system

The new government has a golden opportunity to end the box-ticking approach to inclusion and bring about a system...

JL Dutaut
Amanda Wright and Matthew Shanks
Opinion: Policy

How government can balance experience and innovation

As the Forrest Gump of education, here's what experience has taught me about balancing institutional memory with innovative thinking...

JL Dutaut
Les Walton
Opinion: Policy

Three ways Labour can remove barriers to local leadership

To deliver a locally responsive education system, Labour must reform potent incentives that work against it

JL Dutaut
Nicola Noble and Liz Robinson
Opinion: Policy

Three reasons this week’s STRB letter is game-changing for women

Long-running campaigns have been ackowledged and action will surely follow on fair pay and conditions

JL Dutaut
Vivienne Porritt