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Melissa Benn is a British journalist, author, and political activist. She is the daughter of Tony Benn, a former Labour Party politician, and Caroline Benn, a former teacher and educationalist. She was educated at the independent St Paul's Girls' School in London and then at the University of York, where she studied English and History. Benn has written extensively on education, gender, and politics, and is the author of several books, including School Wars: The Battle for Britain's Education (2012), What Should We Tell Our Daughters? (2015), and Life Lessons: The Case for a National Education Service (2017). She is a regular contributor to The Guardian, The New Statesman, and The Observer. Benn is a founding member of the pressure group Comprehensive Future, which campaigns for an end to selection in state education. She is also a patron of the National Education Union, a trustee of the Runnymede Trust, and a member of the advisory board of the Institute for Public Policy Research.

Popular As Melissa Ann Benn
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Age 67 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 20 February, 1957
Birthday 20 February
Birthplace Hammersmith, London, England
Nationality United Kingdom

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2012

In 2012, Benn won the Fred and Anne Jarvis Award, presented by the National Union of Teachers for her campaigning and work for the cause of comprehensive education.

2010

Benn helped form the Local Schools Network in 2010, a pro-state schools pressure group. School Wars (2011) studies the UK's post-war comprehensive education system. What Should We Tell Our Daughters? was published in 2013.

2008

Her second novel One of Us, a story of two families set with the backdrop of the Iraq War, was published in 2008.

2004

Benn co-edited, with Clyde Chitty, A Tribute to Caroline Benn: Education and Democracy (2004), collecting various papers relevant to the campaign for comprehensive education, an issue on which her mother had been a prominent campaigner. In recent years, Benn has become an advocate for comprehensives and a critic of many aspects of government policy on education. In 2006, with Fiona Millar, she wrote a pamphlet entitled A Comprehensive Future: Quality and Equality for All our Children, which was launched at the House of Commons in January 2006 at a meeting addressed by the former leader of the Labour Party Neil Kinnock and a former Secretary of State for Education Estelle Morris.

1995

Her first novel Public Lives was published in 1995, described by writer Margaret Forster as "remarkably sophisticated for a first". In 1998 Jonathan Cape published Benn's Madonna and Child: towards a modern politics of motherhood which caused some controversy. The reviewers for The Guardian and The Observer, criticised the book while the Literary Review called it "a reflective, rich and rewarding investigation into the ...conditions of mothers' lives". The Guardian featured Benn as one of a number of Britain's leading feminist writers at the time.

1957

Melissa Ann Benn (born 1957) is a British journalist and writer. She is the daughter of Tony Benn and Caroline Benn.

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