What a contrast! Newsnight with Paxman, in the red corner Ed Balls, the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, and in the blue corner his would be successor, Michael Gove. Two cocky little independent schoolboys in a juvenile wrangle, bandying figures and giving no sign that either of them has an informed understanding of teaching and learning or a calm or reasoning frame of mind. On the next night, Dr Maggie Atkinson, the Children’s Commissioner, graduate of Mexborough Sixth Form College and a trained teacher with vast experience of teaching, inspection and management, asked to comment on the latest care scandal: calm, thoughtful, and judicious.
Which would you trust to run the best Department?
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