Call Time on School League Tables, Says Policy Group; EDUCATION MATTERS

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Byline: By James Watson

Parents believe the English education system provides too little choice and is too frequently run in the interests of politicians, not children, a think tank said today.

The poll comes with the release of a new report by the right-leaning think tank Policy Exchange which argues there is too much central government intervention in schools at the expense of the role of teachers.

The report, Helping Schools Succeed: a framework for English education, calls for radical changes in the English state school system.

It wants league tables to be scrapped and replaced with a school "report card" that would provide more information …