Schooling in a Democracy
Returning Education to the Public Service
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1: The emptiness of English public policy

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The chapter introduces the key themes of the book. The outline is made of the twin pushes of academisation and a national policy that has lost sight of the wider world and the communities it is supposed to serve. The structure of the book is set out.

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