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The arts in schools: 40 years on

It's 40 years since the publication of the hugely influential ‘The Arts in Schools’. Here Sally Bacon and Pauline Tambling open a new conversation on the value of the arts to young people.

Pauline Tambling and Sally Bacon
6 min read

In 1976 the Prime Minister James Callaghan made an important speech about education at Ruskin College, Oxford entitled ‘A rational debate based on the facts’. Until then politicians had mo...

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