The Edition: Are we failing the next generation?

<p>For this week’s <em>Edition</em>, William Moore is joined by the <em>Spectator</em>’s commissioning editor Lara Brown, <em>Financial Times</em> columnist and peer Camilla Cavendish and broadcaster and former Labour MP Gloria De Piero.</p><br><p>This week: are screens creating a new education divide? Lara examines the growing backlash against technology in schools. What began as an attempt to create a generation of ‘digital natives’ has left children as young as four doing reading and maths on gamified apps – despite little evidence that they improve learning. State schools are spending hundreds of millions of pounds on &#39;EdTech&#39;, while some of Britain’s leading private schools are moving back towards books, handwriting and screen-free classrooms. Are we creating a two-tier education system – books for the rich and screens for everyone else?</p><br><p>Also: why aren’t young people having children? Camilla discusses her new book <em>Generation Maybe</em>, which investigates falling birth rates around the world. She argues that the problem isn’t simply that women are choosing careers over motherhood: millions of people would like children but cannot find someone to have them with. Are we living through a ‘relationship recession’? Have men failed to keep up with women or have expectations changed? And can governments actually do anything about it? </p><br><p>Finally: why are we so nostalgic for the 1990s? The panel look back at Tony Blair, boozy lunches, and the millennium bug – a world before smartphones took over.</p><br><p>Produced by Patrick Gibbons.</p>

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