Twenty years on from the implementation of the Education Reform Act 1988, Michael Strain and Tim Simkins guest edited a special issue of Educational Management Administration & Leadership entitled "The Legacy of the Education Reform Act 1988" (volume 36, issue 2 - http://ema.sagepub.com/content/36/2.toc). To mark the special issue, more than 50 education policy researchers met to review the impact of the act on teachers, administrators, parents and politicians. The one-day forum, hosted by SAGE and BELMAS, was chaired by Professor Ron Glatter and Professor Peter Gronn and featured other key academics from the field as well as Barry Sheerman MP. Posted April 2008.