Key Blair legacy: better state schools
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Britain's departing prime minister gets generally high marks for reforms and better testing results.
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As Tony Blair prepares to attend his last European Union summit as prime minister, William Horsley, a long-time observer of  Europe's political scene, says Mr Blair made powerful enemies, but his real legacy is to have changed Europe beyond recognition over the past 10 years.
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PM Tony Blair sets out major changes to post-GCSE
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Resolved: The US government should fund primary and secondary education in the United States. In the early 1970s, high school debating teams sparred on this issue, and James M. Poterba, then a member of the debating team at Pennsbury High School in Fairless Hills, Pa., started thinking about tax policy and its impact.
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A state where charter schools have been growing fast - and running into troubles - is now debating a new approach
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By Jennifer Toomer-Cook Deseret Morning News  Give more money to schools, give education money to parents -- Thursday's Utah Foundation forum on improving school funding brought some diverse views.  Perhaps some of those could form into recommendations to the Legislature.
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Extra student funding would be better targeted at raising standards in school, says a financial think-tank.
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More competitive school sport could be part of the next Labour manifesto, suggests the culture secretary.
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Media & professional: Gordon Brown launches a drive to instil competitive sport in state schools.
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More grammar and private schools should be opened to improve the UK's 'dire' educational status, according to a new report from the Economic Research Council.
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Tony Blair is to announce more government funding to train imams at British universities.
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School inspectors must show they are good value and actually improve standards, MPs say.
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Â· Few institutions pass admission benchmarks Â· Russell Group blames low achievement at school
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Grammar schools should twin with failing comprehensives to improve standards, a government adviser says.
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Head teachers say twinning  failing schools with good ones is the best way to turn them around.
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Education remains Labour's top priority, Tony Blair is expected to saying during a West Midlands visit.
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Almost a fifth of England's state secondary schools do not meet GCSE targets but things are improving.