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More and more people are recommending that unconscious-bias training should be brought into schools to tackle racism. This is a mistake, says Kevin Rooney

The sex education row raises interesting questions about what tolerance means, and schools’ role in moral instruction

With support for scrapping publicly funded religious schools on the rise, Kevin Rooney – an atheist – champions the virtues of a faith-based education and argues that such a move would be at odds with the idea of a tolerant society

A much-needed discussion about the relationship between the why, what and how we teach

It’s not up to teachers to prepare pupils for the workplace - schools are not engines of social mobility, they’re places of learning, writes one head of department

Schools are being asked to fix a political problem. Teachers need to fight back against policymakers and apathetic unions, writes Kevin Rooney