What Bridget Phillipson can learn from Conservative education policy

What Bridget Phillipson can learn from Conservative education policy

It’s fitting that the new book by former Conservative schools minister Nick Gibb reads like a textbook. Part memoir, part manual, Reforming Lessons is both a guide to implementing the policies Gibb introduced under his tenure; and a defence of those policies. For me, reading it is personal. As a new maths teacher in 2009, I watched his reforms roll through the school gates. A few years later, as a Labour education advisor, I spent my time critiq…