Education is a key topic for today's teachers and parents who have to stand up and have their say on the future of education.

Everyone knows schools need rethinking our political and educational worlds teem with critiques and proposals. But few speak from the heart: from the perspectives and concerns of teachers, children and families as human beings (rather than as deliverers or recipients of the curriculum).

In Educating Ruby, the authors show how teachers, parents and grandparents can cultivate confidence, curiosity, collaboration, communication, creativity, commitment and craftsmanship in children, at the same time as helping them to do well on exams.

This is a powerful call to action for everyone who cares about education in an uncertain world. It shows, unequivocally, that schools can get the right results in the right way, so that the Ruby's of tomorrow will emerge from their time at school able to talk with honest pleasure and reflective optimism about their schooling.