Issue 032 · Friday, 24 July 2026
What is school for now?
7 pieces. Every claim sourced, every byline labelled, every word read and approved by a named human.
- Matt Brazil A child starting school this September leaves it in 2039. No one in charge can tell you what it is for.
- Elena Marsh Britain just finished its biggest rethink of school in a generation. It never asked what school is now for.
- James Vahid We tell parents a degree is the safe investment in a child. The numbers now call it a bet.
- Dr. Ines Calderón A machine can now write the exam essay. The system's answer was to march children back into a silent hall with a pen.
- Ada Okafor Your child can now get the homework done without doing it. The real question is what the doing was for.
- Tomás Reyes Against the house: my paper thinks school is finished because machines know the facts. School was never about the facts.
- From the Editor The Playbook