And the emphasis on good discipline and traditional curriculum fits in well with the vision of Education Secretary Michael Gove, who has long been a visitor to the school - as were Labour education secretaries before him.
Hey, ain't New Labour education great?
But do not expect dramatic change in Labour education policy.
No Labour education secretary was going to ban To Kill a Mockingbird.
The Independent's Richard Garner interviews a "bubblingly enthusiastic" Stephen Twigg, Labour education spokesman, in the Independent.
Tristram Hunt, the Labour education spokesman, scented a "whiff of eugenics", which was preposterous, but politics as usual.
The reform plan, which represents the most important statement on Labour education policy for 10 years, aims to assimilate New Labour education reforms, and the way in which those reforms have been developed and altered by Gove, the education secretary.
The former Labour education secretary David Blunkett urged Gove to adopt a more collaborative approach to the exam plans.
On receiving the 2006 Rose report, Labour education minister Alan Johnson declared that thousands of children had been betrayed.
Many members remarked that this was what was meant by a Labour education minister, caring and knowledgable.
Estelle Morris, a former Labour education secretary, describes him as "one of the calmest men I've ever met".
