Cameron may throw like a girl but his education policy is transformative

Oh the weather outside may be frightful, but David Cameron went ahead with his education speech today – a subject on which he doesn’t say enough, in my view, because there is so much to say. The policy he had to launch was a Carol Vorderman-led maths review, but there were plenty of other aspects to his speech. Extracts below, with my take after:-
 

DC: We envisage academy status – with all the freedoms it brings to generate success freedoms which have been used brilliantly here will become the norm for state schools. These big structural changes are crucial if we’re to have the sort of revolutionary change I think is necessary to make our schools the best in the world. 

FN: Cameron does not exaggerate when he says “revolutionary”. He’s talking about cutting state schools free from Local Education Authorities (LEAs) – the education barons who saw off Thatcher, Baker, Blair and Adonis.