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This blog post summarises chapter 2 of my book Seven Myths about Education. It will be published on March 5th 2014 by Routledge. To read the introduction to this sequence of posts, click here. Click h…

This blog post summarises chapter 1 of my book Seven Myths about Education. It will be published on March 5th 2014 by Routledge. To read the introduction to this sequence of posts, click here. Click h…

This is an introduction to my book, Seven Myths about Education. It will be published on March 5th 2014 by Routledge.  Click here to preorder if you are in the UK, and here if you are in the US. My bo…

Appendix A – Lesson descriptions from Ofsted reports

In this post here I noted that E.D. Hirsch often cites Antonio Gramsci’s work in defence of his ideas. The quotation he (and others) often refer to is this one: The new concept of schooling is in its…

On BBC Radio 4 Analysis just now I quoted Robert Tressell to explain why important knowledge belongs to all of us. “What we call civilization–the accumulation of knowledge which has come down to us f…

On Monday evening BBC Radio 4 are broadcasting this documentary on E.D. Hirsch and Core Knowledge. It will feature an interview with Hirsch himself, as well as with Nick Gibb, Sir Michael Barber and A…

On Tuesday, the Guardian published an article about E.D. Hirsch and his Core Knowledge Curriculum. The article stated that after Hirsch published his work on the importance of knowledge in the curricu…

Last night I spoke at the Battle of Ideas on the Defence of Subjects. I spoke in favour of subjects, and my main points were as follows. Subjects work. They are the most efficient and effective way of…