The Coalition government's programme for education is a fundamental challenge to the idea of social justice. It has provoked widespread opposition. A wave of student militancy has swept though the universities. Local campaigns against academies and free schools has mobilised parents and teachers. This is the emerging and contested terrain which this books explores. It situates it in a longer timespan - the New Labour period as well as that of the Cameron government.
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The Coalition government's programme for education is a fundamental challenge to the idea of social justice. It has provoked widespread opposition. A wave of student militancy has swept though the universities. Local campaigns against academies and free schools has mobilised parents and teachers. This is the emerging and contested terrain which this books explores. It situates it in a longer timespan - the New Labour period as well as that of the Cameron government.