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29th September 1995, 1:00am

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“I made a choice as a parent, not a politician”

Tony Blair on why he decided to send his son to a grant-maintained school.

“In the most effective low socio-economic status school we looked at in Britain the head is a walking embodiment of ‘simultaneous top down and bottom upness’.”

Preliminary report of the International School Effectiveness Research Project.

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