UK political developments over the last twenty years have seen a growing acceptance of the idea of comprehensive education. But that acceptance of non-selective schools is based on a profound, hostile rejection of progressive ideas.
Faster than we recognise, schools are becoming profit centres. The buildings, the teaching, the cleaning, the exam results are all ways to make money. But who benefits? Not the poorest, argues Melissa Benn.
Can a child from an inner city academy in a deprived area in Britain fulfil her dream of becoming a lawyer? Not without a radical change in government thinking on education, argues Melissa Benn
