Basic ABCs remain best way forward

Everyone knows that British education is in crisis. Chief Inspector Chris Woodhead thinks he knows where the real problem lies:

“The problem with Scottish education is not feckless parents and their feral children. It isn’t that your schools don’t have the books and computers they need. It is that the supposed experts from the world of education and the gullible ministers who hang on their every word despise the traditional education most parents, in Scotland as in England, want for their children.”

See Woodhead’s essay in The Scotsman.