Peter Hyman's book has received considerable attention and praise. He was, after all, Blair's speechwriter for a decade, coining sound bite after sound bite and crafting a New Labour position on education. Then he went to work for a couple of terms at Islington Green Comprehensive, where Blair's son Euan might have gone. There he discovered the reality of contemporary state schools, as he tried to turn his hand to whole-class teaching, one-to-one tuition, managing the troublesome kids who had been "internally excluded", and contributing to the possibility of the school becoming an academy - another policy he subjects to strong critique.
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