The best story of yesterday? Andrew Sullivan picked up this, from the Texas-Freedom Network's live-blog on a meeting held by the Texas Board of Education to revise its curriculum: 9:30 – Board member Cynthia Dunbar... wants to drop the reference...

The A-Level pass rate has risen for the 28th successive year. Debasing the coinage. It's what governments do....

In addition to scientific articles, Gene Expression often has articles on social attitudes surveys. This one is from Iran and looks into the differences of opinion between those with low levels of education and those with high levels of education. The less-educated do seem to take a slightly more conservative view on some questions, but the difference is often not that great.

Rick Perry may have won his third term as Texas governor this month, but the prize is a state budget deficit analysts estimate has grown as high as $25bn

Theo makes some good points about Texas, including: Maybe you don't know it, but Texas is the only state with a legal right to secede from the Union... (Reference the Texas-American Annexation Treaty of 1848.) OK, now we'd agree as far as saying that Obama would be incapable of handling such a move and also note the other secessionist moves of late, e.g. Montana and California. Note the ...

Office for National Statistics - Gross Value Added (GVA) series excluding public administration and defence; compulsory social security, education, health and social work.

Guest post The cause of social mobility overlaps with that of a progressive racial agenda. But it also transcends racial politics and is inextricably linked with education. Historically, and in less developed countries, access to education is the key to better social mobility. But where the provision of state education is a given, differences in the

Telegraph View Alan Milburn is right to say that schools offer the best hope of improving social mobility.

In Texas, everyone’s free to be a cop: Among the many entities in Texas that have their own peace officers is the State Board of Dental Examiners... It turns out Texas is just full of small, specialized police forces: the...

I’ll be speaking to the Ruskin Fellowship this weekend, the independent association of Ruskin College alumni. Ruskin was established by people who saw education as the route, not only of personal fulfilment, but also the catalyst for social progress. Down the decades, it has provided a university education in Oxford for generations of social workers, campaigners, trade unionists and politici...