You might expect a government pledged to doing 'what works' to be interested in 'what works where', especially when embarking on a 'pivotal'
and 'irreversible' educational revolution.
Tony Blair's plan - to release schools from local authorities, freeing them to decide how to select pupils, courses and teaching methods, all in the name of parent and pupil choice - should be compared to how things work in other sectors and societies.
Childcare is the most privatised and fragmented sector of our education system. But if we were starting again, would we organise it this way? Don't most parents, and indeed providers, laugh at the notion of choice?
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