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By: Mark Lehain

Mark Lehain is executive headteacher at Wootton Academy Trust and a former special adviser at the department of education

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  • Freedom and parental choice are under threat from school reforms

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    The government’s schools bill will undo all the progress that’s been made in English education and had power over our children’s futures to unions and activists, rather than the people who know best, says Mark Lehain English schools really are better now than 35 years ago, by any number of measures. Things improved by design, [...]

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