Inside the English education lab

<i>Inside the English education lab </i>offers a range of qualitative and ethnographic explorations of the academies programme in England. Drawing on examples from primary and secondary academy institutions a free school and Multi Academy Trusts the collection explores how promises of academy policy are often at odds with everyday practice. Data and evidence throughout the collection highlight a multitude of ways in which the academies 'experiment' retrenches rather than reforms inequalities. Methodological insights and innovations are also a central feature of the collection where authors interrogate what it means to collect and produce data in the current political context.