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IF THERE is a buzzword for the political and news agenda this week, that word is education — the lack of it, the attempted denial of it and the downright oddness of it.
To illustrate the last point, we go to Samworth Church Academy in Mansfield, where pupils have been banned from putting their hands up to answer questions in class after the head teacher said it was always the same ones responding.
Apparently, the academy will now only allow the raising of hands “to establish silence for listening,” according to principal Barry Found.
ALAN MORRISON recommends a consummate, heart-warming collection about a working-class upbringing in the industrial north-east
DR HANA SAADA asks why a war crime against innocent children on this scale does not dominate the world’s coverage of the US-Israeli war on Iran
JAN WOOLF finds out where she came from and where she’s going amid Pete Townshend’s tribute to 1970s youth culture
ANGUS REID calls for artists and curators to play their part with political and historical responsibility