One is a large multicultural school with a high proportion of British Pakistani-heritage pupils.
The challenge, they wrote, is to inculcate this heritage in their pupils, those left "by the wayside of republican values".
"I think you see very clearly the similar ideas that Hirsch is talking about, that there is a common heritage of knowledge and every pupil, every citizen in this country, has a right to share in that knowledge".
He was active in educational institutions that reaffirmed their pupils' and students' Jewish heritage.
They pointed out that at the nearest primary school, a Church of England school which does not select by faith, 70 per cent of the pupils are of Pakistani heritage.
Levin says his school, City of London school for boys, has collaborated with one school, Stepney Green in east London, where "97% of pupils are of Bangladeshi heritage", while other schools take an overwhelmingly high proportion of pupils of west African descent.
Back in 1984, Ray Honeyford, the headteacher at a Bradford school, caused a stir when he said that his pupils from mainly poor Pakistani heritage and tribal communities were being badly served by leftwing policy-makers and parent groups.
It is remembering those children let down by the old GCSE, and the culture of low expectations it epitomised, that drives our mission to give all pupils access to our shared literary heritage.
The example of Balanchine is continually apparent — as is some of Mr. Andersen's Danish heritage — and the creativity of Mr. Andersen, an apt pupil, emerges in bright details rather than bold or breathtaking new ideas.
"Then when Fritz asks me, 'How did you get here?' " he continued, "I say, 'I just took the 66th Street crosstown.' " Nonetheless the children, pupils at the company's School of American Ballet, take their heritage seriously.
Ms Vallaud-Belkacem recently described opponents of the history programme as "pseudo-intellectuals" after they said it would deprive pupils of vast chunks of France's cultural heritage.
