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David Carter has a track record in creating innovative school cultures. He heads a federation of two academies in Bristol, and is about to take on a third. He describes his work to Geoff Barton

Farewell then to our shimmering summer of British Olympic success. As seasoned educationists, I think we know what lesson could be drawn from our bumper hoard of trophies. Standards are clearly falling.

After a year as PM, Brown should be helping the leaders of ‘failing’ schools, not rubbing their noses in the dirt