Two of my kids attend a London academy school in Hackney that's working wonders for children of all backgrounds. My latest Cif piece says:
Two or three years ago, after word had got around that something special was happening, an open evening for prospective Mossbourne families was preceded by such an anxious crush outside the gates that police had to be called to quell unrest. As every big time politician knows, this is the school where you launch your big time education policies - Mossbourne is the academy that worked.
But how far is its success due to its being an academy, and how far to something else? Now read on.
