Schools with traditional education methods dominated the top of last month’s league tables, prompting a piece in The Times declaring that “stricter schools get better results”.
So has Nick Gibb, a staunch proponent of such approaches, won the education war? Schools Week investigates…
“Academisation and free schools work,” wrote Mark Lehain last month, the former special adviser who soon after returned to the fold with the education secretary.
“More rigorous curriculums and exams work. Explicit approaches to behaviour and teaching work.”
