It seems we are at war again. Education Secretary Nicky Morgan has declared a “war on illiteracy and innumeracy”. The booty will include 11-year-olds reciting the twelve times table and the attrition, threatening schools which fail to deliver this with being taken over by new management.
No sensible person could wish for any child to be disempowered by being unable to read or do the basic arithmetic necessary to function, let alone flourish, in their daily lives. Nor is it possible to imagine ...
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