Matthew Hunter
The Blob Has Run Schools For Decades. Not Any More
It seeped into every classroom and subsumed any attempt to destroy it. But the education establishment has met its match in Michael Gove
At Last: Gove Goes For the Culture of Excuses
Our most ambitious state schools are successfully challenging the suffocating idea that social class determines educational success
History Lessons for the 21st-Century Classroom
A generation of child-centred, progressive teachers will have to retire or be retrained if the past is to come alive again in schools
The Chaos Wrought By Progressive Education
A teacher reveals how 50 years of creeping moral relativism have left him helpless to turn his pupils into decent members of society
Child-Centered Learning Has Let My Pupils Down
The progressive orthodoxy in British education has left one in five school-leavers functionally illiterate. That ethos needs to change
Chaotic Legacy of the Classroom Radicals
Every day I grapple with unruly pupils who have no respect for teachers because discipline is treated as a dirty word in our schools
Will the green agenda be killed off by the pandemic?
‘Will the green agenda be killed off by the longer-term coronavirus recovery? Or might the closure of so much business, and the cleaner air that results from planes not flying and factories not working, give us extra years to gain control of our environment?’
Why T.S. Eliot still matters
His contemporaries’ reputations have diminished. But Eliot’s has grown: he is the poet who shows us what can be saved from the ruins
Music’s in the house
Rappers have found a role in lockdown: chronicling coronavirus with topical tunes. Most people, though, are rushing to the safety of the past