The Guardian view on schools: the hardest questions for Lucy Powell are about priorities | Editorial
The education secretary is right that her job is not to ‘polish the status quo’.
The Guardian reports that the education secretary is right that her job is not to ‘polish the status quo’.
Next, she must decide what to change first There is a good case to be made for the increased importance of speaking skills in our new age of machines. A concerning decline in children’s language development, both in the UK and internationally, has been linked to high screen use.
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