Nick Gibb, the long-serving schools minister of a series of Conservative administrations between 2010 to 2024, and headteacher Robert Peal, explores the key principles behind the reforms and reveals the impact they had on school leadership, accountability, teaching methods, curriculum design and pupil behaviour. Addressing the long legacy of “progressive” approaches to teaching in English schools, and the development of evidence-led alternatives, the book demonstrates the approaches to education such as “warm-strict”, “teacher-led instruction”, and knowledge-rich curriculum have been simultaneously both controversial and hugely successful. Tories put rocket boosters under the academies and free schools programme and how, those new … Continue reading Reforms that shaped England’s school system