Dave Clements
The Crisis in the Classroom: How the special needs explosion is destroying education
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A conversation about the needs explosion (opens the original)
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I was delighted to be invited to what turned out to be an intimate, compact yet packed gig with the lovely folk of Birmingham Salon. We were in a little room above a central Birmingham pub on a street I used to frequent as a younger man of a weekend. It is the city where I was raised and yet now barely recognise. But still it felt like home. Even after spending more than half of my adult life in London. It still has something of the buzz that I remember, even if many of my old haunts in the bull
In defence of neurodiversity (opens the original)
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