Education

Articles from the Red Action Bulletin, Volume 4
 
EDUCATED - TO KNOW OUR PLACE
Private education is not just a consequence of class privilege but is a condition for it. J. Reilly illustrates how discrimination is built into the system and why, under New Labour, it is becoming even more pronounced.
Reproduced from RA Bulletin Volume 4, Issue 7, June/July '00
 
A CURIOUSLY ENGLISH STORY..
For Guardian reporter Nick Davies, the comprehensive system is a curiously english story, featuring a little snobbery, a dash of racism and a great deal of class politics. However, as A. Shaw explains, precisely the same ingredients are implicit in his own remedy
Reproduced from RA Bulletin Volume 4, Issue 5, Feb/March '00
 
THE POOR ARE STUPID
In the first of a two part series, A. Shaw explains how, like their Tory predecessors, Labour’s education policy is designed not to confront a discrimination that begins in the classroom - but to justify it.
Reproduced from RA Bulletin Vol 4, Issue 4, Dec '99/Jan '00