2024 is just around the corner.  It will mark the eightieth anniversary of the momentous 1944 Butler Act, considered a ‘triumph for progressive reform’.  Yet, even though times have changed, in many respects education continues to operate around the social and economic assumptions growing out of the post-war reconstruction. 'One Nation Tory' Rab Butler First … Continue reading Eighty years on, the post-war education project has come off the rails. →