Melissa Benn

Yup, I go tabloid at last. Love David Cameron’s Mr Chips hat..

Interview in the Huffington Post

@Melissa_Benn I am a reluctant convert – but my publishers ordered me onto the twittersphere in preparation for publication. But already, I am finding it a really useful source of information and an interesting forum for a certain kind of debate. Good for literacy skills too!

The book, on education, is done. The cover is – nearly – finalised. The plans, for publication, are shaping up. Don’t let anyone tell you that a writer’s life is an easy one, particularly not for a book like this, commissioned, and executed, in double quick time: three months of interviews and school visits – [...]

In today’s Guardian… heavily cut, but gives an idea of some of the arguments…

Successful media performers usually combine instant availability ( don’t these people have lives to live, work to do, children to feed, elderly relatives to take care of????) with the ability to get their point across in a naturalistic way; neither too concise, nor too rambling. Too short an answer and you risk looking like Clement [...]

Read Melissa Benn’s contribution/s to Women and the Revolution, a collection of articles from Guardian writers on Forty Years of Feminism, edited by Kira Cochrane and published tomorrow, November 25th.

If you are interested in the long term implications of the government White Paper on education, published today, or interested in government policy, education quality and equality in general, please go to our new website/campaign The Local Schools Network – and join the debate!

Below a piece I have written for tomorrow’s Guardian – part of our official launch of the Local Schools Network. If you believe in non selective high quality state education and want to help us further improve it, to the benefit of all children, not just a few, then please join our campaign group or [...]

Read my latest post on the Local Schools Network – and then sign up and support us. A very interesting piece by Danny Dorling in today’s Guardian Education about a speaking tour he undertook around the country, just before the Comprehensive Spending Review, in which he visited a range of schools, including a local comprehensive, [...]