More selection? The evidence against piles up.
In August 2016 Fiona Millar issued a challenge saying that if the Government wants more grammars and has evidence in support they ... Read more
A Comprehensive Future supporter and Grandmother writes from Hertfordshire about her experience of what selection does and what comprehensives can achieve
I failed the 11 plus intelligence test in the early 1950s so could not go on to sit the English/Maths exams which ... Read more
Segregation, segregation, segregation ….
I grew up and was educated in the 1960’s when selection in education was the norm. I was from a middle class ... Read more
Response to the Green Paper – Asking the wrong questions, ignoring the right answers
Comprehensive Future has today submitted its response to the DfE green paper, ‘Schools that work for everyone’. In strongly opposing the proposals ... Read more
Comprehensive Future responds to the Green Paper
Asking the wrong questions, ignoring the right answers. Comprehensive Future’s response to the 2016 Green Paper ‘Schools that Work for Everyone’. “What ... Read more
Stories from Kent, what selection really means
Joanne Bartley, from Kent Education Network spoke at the Reclaiming Education conference about what selection means in Kent. I’m from Kent, where, ... Read more
Parents speak to MPs about the damaging effects of selection
The true price of selection Parents’ stories from selective areas in England Compiled by Comprehensive Future for the parliamentary meeting October 18th ... Read more
Parents talk about selection and their children
18 October 2016 WHILE GRAMMAR HEADS CELEBRATE PARENTS REVEAL THE TRUE PRICE OF SELECTION This evening, a group of parents from selective ... Read more
One Nation? That didn’t last long says Melissa Benn
Melissa Benn, Chair of Comprehensive Future, annotates Theresa May’s supposedly ‘One Nation’ speech on the steps of Downing Street on July 13th ... Read more
From Kent and Bucks, more evidence of the need to end selection
In Kent, Bucks and in a speech by Michael Wilshaw the evidence continues to pile up about the need to end selection. ... Read more