Michael Gove’s vision for education is not good for children.
A science-fiction film released in 1958 depicts how the “Blob”, a giant shapeless amoeba-like alien, takes over a small American town and defies every attempt to destroy it. The Blob is what the erudite Michael Gove, education secretary, calls the educational establishment – or, more precisely, anyone who opposes his determination to recreate the 1950s classroom.
Gove’s opposition is a dirty business. Last week, Sir Michael Wilshaw, the chief inspector of schools, brought in by Gove in 2011 to drive up standards, said he was “spitting blood” because he believed that the minister’s department had orchestrated criticism of Ofsted, via two thinktanks, undermining its authority.
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