Their toxic antics at the Department for Education disguised policies that were wilfully careless with children’s futuresOnce upon a time there was a Twitter account called @toryeducation. Now extinct for reasons that will become clear, it was in its day an aggressive player in the education policy debate raging around...

Survey shows majority oppose baseline assessment, which is being trialled in half of schoolsHeadteachers and campaigners have urged the government to halt plans to introduce a start-of-school assessment for four- and five-year-olds, arguing it is a waste of money and will not benefit schools or children.About half of all primary...