Battle of Ideas | Battles in Print In truth schools already see themselves as “engines of social mobility”, where children’s failure to achieve is understood as stemming from a home life deficient in parenting skills, knowledge or opportunity. The result is that a teacher’s traditional role of passing on knowledge to the next generation has become a side-act to the demand of creating a fair society, but this is a project in which schools can never succeed Sally Millard, 25 November 2011 In face of policy rhetoric about the Big Society and ‘people power’, what happens to autonomy and agency when unseen experts and policy wonks seek to subvert competent adults’ decisions about what they eat, how many units they drink or whether they give up time to help the community. Kathryn Ecclestone, 25 November 2011 The reasons why people use drugs, and the consequences of taking them, are as varied as the forms of intoxication available. Roger Howard & Leo Barasi, 24 October 2011 Paul Reeves, 24 October 2011 Rania Hafez, 5 November 2010
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