The Guardian view on the education bill: needs improvement | Editorial gu.com/p/4a3xg One Nation means silencing parents, apparently

Let’s end this disgraceful charade over academies gu.com/p/4avdc Rather generous to the Tories in parts, and more damning for that.

Michael Wilshaw's Speech : A Shower of Spite. wp.me/p2rnml-Os via @debrakidd < This, so very much. Wilshaw's a state-sponsored bully.

Children can & will make mistakes/panic. It's ludicrous to blame teachers. As for learning marking schemes rather than the actual subject...

Secret Teacher seems to think children are robots who just need right programming. Sad reflection of current culture. gu.com/p/49kjm

@emmaannhardy @Ofstednews Hits the nail very firmly on the head. Excellent comments all round "below the line".

"I want to keep ideology out of education" often seems to mean the speaker's favoured ideology is losing the argument. #Sweden #FreeSchools

Curious how many people who object to ideology in education have very strong ideological positions themselves when you scratch the surface.

Tory MPs push for money to be switched from urban to rural schools gu.com/p/49km9 Which just happens to benefit Tory constituencies.

NB: If you care more about the feelings of corporatist Tory donors than the school community they're invading, you're part of the problem.

Labour MP attacks academy group in maiden parliamentary speech gu.com/p/49kq8 Could he replace Tristram, please?

Children and schools routinely treated as disposable chattels - no problem. @labourlewis speaks up and *then* people get upset, apparently.

Today, @NickyMorgan01 repeatedly unable/unwilling to quote performance of academies - her responsibility. Who's coasting/inadequate here?