Barnaby Lenon: How English state schools improved rapidly after 2010, and what Labour should do next

Barnaby Lenon: How English state schools improved rapidly after 2010, and what Labour should do next

Barnaby Lenon is Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Buckingham. More than a decade ago I was the head of Harrow, a good school, but an unusual one, being 100 per cent boarding and 100 per cent boys and private. When I retired I decided to do a few things which might inform me about state schools, which teach the vast majority of children. This experience persuaded me that state schools were improving fast as a result of decisi…