Test Today, Privatize Tomorrow: Using Accountability to “Reform” Public Schools to Death

I just about fell off my desk chair the other day when I came across my own name in an essay by a conservative economist who specializes in educational issues. The reason for my astonishment is that I was described as being “dead set against any fundamental changes in the nation’s schools.” Now having been [...]

Our Children Tested to Destruction

The damning indictment of England’s primary education system revealed that the country’s children are now the most tested in the world. Primary school pupils have to deal with unprecedented levels of pressure as they face tests more frequently, at a younger age, and in more subjects than children from any other country, according to one [...]