Ken Jones is Lead Policy Advisor at the National Education Union.
He is Emeritus Professor of Education at Goldsmiths, University of London, and author of Education in Britain (2016).
About IOE Debates
Through this series we bring together a range of commentators - academics, politicians, practitioners, policy wonks - and pushing them to bring some radical new thinking to some of the apparently intractable issues within education, not least the English education system.
This can help all of us reflect on the status quo, celebrate progress but also consider how we might change things for the better to achieve commonly held goals for our education system and what it can do for us all.