Battle Readings is a regularly updated compilation of articles, essays, and opinion pieces relevant to the themes of the Battle of Ideas.
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Government guidance on the setting of homework including references to parental engagement.
The Standards Site, department for children, schools and families
a study of 9 to 13-year-olds
Agnes Nairn & Jo Ormrod, National Consumer Council
There is a simple answer to the question ‘what is the value of research in the humanities?’ It is that research in the humanities is the only activity that can establish the meaning of such a question.
Jonathan Bate, AHRC (working draft)
TUC booklet on bullying, rights and redress.
Trades Union Congress, Trades Union Congress
Social Work Manifesto: we need to find more effective ways of resisting the dominant trends within social work and map ways forward for a new engaged practice.
School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Liverpool,
Simon Frith, Oxford University Press,
John Blacking, University of Chicago Press,
Under the banner of saving the African environment, Africans in the last half century have been subjected to a new form of "environmental colonialism"
Robert H Nelson, The Independent Review, VIII, n1, Summer 2003
Hunger in the UK: the food banks phenomenon
"Although 'battle' suggests destruction, these were some of the most constructive debates I've taken part in. This was civilised conflict in the best sense of both words."
Julian Baggini, author, Welcome to Everytown: A Journey into the English Mind, and The Ego Trick