Melissa Benn: 4 books

Book cover of The Truth About Our Schools

The Truth About Our Schools

Exposing the myths, exploring the evidence

by Melissa Benn, Janet Downs
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015

"A superb, crucial, blistering expose of all the myths about our education system that are all too often used to attack it. Melissa Benn again proves why she is one of country's most formidable education campaigners - and why the powerful should fear her. Owen Jones, Guardian columnist...
Book cover of School Wars

School Wars

The Battle for Britain's Education

by Melissa Benn
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012

School Wars tells the story of the struggle for Britain’s education system. Established during the 1960s and based on the progressive ideal of good schools for all, the comprehensive system has over the past decades come under sustained attack from successive governments. Now, with the growing...
Book cover of Life Lessons

Life Lessons

The Case for a National Education Service

by Melissa Benn
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018

A radical agenda to make our education system fit for the twenty-first century Our education system has been damaged by politicians who have arrogantly imposed a regime of market-driven reforms. It is time to reframe education as an essential public good, one arising from a hunger to find more...
Book cover of Organizational Change for Corporate Sustainability
by Suzanne Benn, Melissa Edwards, Tim Williams
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018

Since this classic book was first published in 2003, sustainability has increasingly been accepted as standard business practice for leading corporations, while the science itself has revealed how human activity has become the dominant force influencing irreversible changes in the planetary systems. The...
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