
Tony Blair said his three priorities were Education Education Education. Andrew Adonis played a decisive role in turning this slogan into a reform programme. This book describes his quest to transform standards & opportunities in Englands schools & his ambition to make English education truly world class. The reinvention of the comprehensive school was the central Blair project. In 1997 a majority of comprehensives were failing or seriously underperforming with calamitous consequences for society & the economy. Academies replaced comprehensives by a radically new form of independent state school characterised by strong leadership & an ethos of aspiration success & social mobility. Adonis tells the story of academies from the germ of a reform idea in the late 1990s to the national movement for educational transformation they have become today. Adonis argues that wider reform is imperative to make Englands schools world-class & sets out a manifesto for change including higher salaries & better training & selection to make teaching the nations most prestigious profession & further radical innovation in the creation of new & better schools to tackle school drop-out & the challenges of the future. Education Education Education is optimistic about the power of politics to transform society for the better & practical about the ways to make it happen.