Scottish schools have tumbled from top of the class. This is what went wrong | Sonia Sodha

Pupils became unwitting guinea pigs of faddish, unproven theories - and paid a high price The Scottish school system was once the jewel in the British educational crown. With good standards and low levels of social inequality, it was seen as the part of the UK where working-class kids could get ahead as a result of a high-quality comprehensive education. The English system was a basket case by comparison, characterised by huge variations in school quality, poor outcomes and the occasional wacky ...