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The Cop explains that no matter how big a dickhead you are, you can still aspire to become Prime Minister

 

 

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Students getting organised

 

 

 Diverse group of students in a class

Rebel City Collective explain how they do it in schools

 

 

Nellie Dick

Barbara Leeds remembers Nellie Dick

 

 

Protest

Déjà vu

 

Custard Cream

Put the Woke Back to Sleep

 

 

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The Boris Revolution Derailed?

 

Percy Shelley

Covid Britain

 

David Gribble

John Shotton recalls the first time he met David Gribble, who died last December aged 87

 

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An article by David published in Lib Ed 28, Summer 1997

 

Michael Gerard

Bar Bowen remembers Michael Gerard, a long-standing member of the Lib Ed Collective, who died, aged 73, earlier this year

 

Baby on the floor

Michael explored the issues around play and development in the very young in this article from Lib Ed 23-24, Spring 1994

 

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A lesson from Dickens

 

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The Curriculum Cop beds down with the new regime.

 

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Ian Cunningham offered his thoughts on empowerment at the recent IDEC conference in Bangalore

 

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The Great Oxbridge Conundrum

 

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A call for a radical overhaul by the Radical Education Forum

 

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An account of an open-minded school for children with major educational and social problems.

Dr. Alex Gray

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A modest proposal from an ex-inspector.

Derry Hannam

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There are more really free schools in the UK than you might think.

Danny Whitehouse

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Some unfortunate results of friendly fire, but a continued attack on hope.

David Gribble

David Gribble tells us what he learned at Eton. What did you learn?

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A clear account of a school where young people between the ages of four and eighteen really decide what they are going to do each day, and there are no lessons.

Daniel Greenberg

Portrait of Margaret Thatcher

How a grammar school education in the 1970s failed to develop an artistic talent.

Roger Birchall

Unhappy boy

Fronted Adverbials.

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Conferences in the UK and elsewhere

A girl looking thoughtful

Falko Peschel introduces a number of short films about his work

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Chris W of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) sets out the background to their latest education workers campaign

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The Phoenix Education Trust explain some of their activities

Stature of a man

The curriculum cop puts down a revolt at the Spartacus Academy in Luton

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A description of the village for abused, orphaned or abandoned children in Thailand, adapted from their website

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Why and how they avoided conventional assemblies at William Booth primary school

Andy Mattison

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The boss goes down with semi-colonitis

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The Centre for Self-Managed Learning meets OFSTED

Ian Cunningham

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The damage done by lining-up, and how to avoid it

Andy Mattison

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Helping school students to discover their own interests

Jenifer Smith

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Small Classes or Death

Drawing of a boy

Ken Hosey
An assessment of the problems faced by boys when the school leaving age was raised to sixteen in 1973, still all too familiar.

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Andy Mattison
A reflection on the Plowden Report's recommendation that teachers should care tenderly for individuals.

Dr Samuel Johnson

A few timely quotations.

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The Last Trump.

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A new review of a book that has perhaps been neglected because of its misleadingly obscure title

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David Gribble

Dustbin

Curriculum Cop 11

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An introduction to an article by William Doyle.

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Ramin Farhanghi

A new school in Paris

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Patrick Neustatter

A doctor's view of the effects of modern education

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Ian Cunningham

Preparing children for jobs that don't exist any more