Professor Becky Allen of the UCL Institute of Education has written important articles about the Pupil Premium (PP) that I discuss here and here...
Read moreI return to the work of Professor Rebecca (Becky) Allen , Director of the Centre for Education Improvement Science, UCL Institute of Education,...
Read moreI refer to the work of Professor Rebecca (Becky) Allen , Director of the Centre for Education Improvement Science, UCL Institute of Education, who...
Read moreEvidence that the title of this article should be taken seriously can be found here and here .
On 7 October 2018 I wrote to the Fair...
Read moreThe Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) has published a seven part guide to improving secondary science teaching .
It is excellent, and...
Read moreThis 1999 paper by Professor Michael Shayer is of enormous significance for the future of the English education system and the way that school...
Read moreThis is the title of a Guardian article which appeared on 11 September 2018. The following (in italics) are excerpts.
Major study of 1.8...
Read moreThe Guardian of 2 September 2018 carried this story from which I quote as follows (in italics).
Parents have criticised the use of...
Read moreShortly to be published research by Professor Michael Shayer reveals an accidental breakthrough in how highly significant cognitive development in...
Read moreDr Montacute’s article is linked to a Sutton Trust media release of 31 July 2018, purporting to show that high attaining disadvantaged pupils are...
Read moreThe ‘north/south attainment gap’ claimed to exist by The Sutton Trust, The Social Mobility Foundation, the DfE, the National Schools Commissioner...
Read moreI have received this response from The Sutton Trust to my article questioning the ‘attainment gap’ .
Research by John Goldthorpe has...
Read moreOn 31 March 2018, I watched a BBC 2 Sir David Attenborough programme about birds’s eggs. Although I have only a modest interest in garden birds,...
Read moreEvery Facebook user should be aware of the business model of ‘free’ social media type services. It is to collect personal data and then sell it...
Read moreThe Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) has published what is probably the most comprehensive study yet on ‘The Attainment Gap’ , which has been...
Read moreThe inspiration for this article is Steven Pinker’s 1994 book, ‘The Language Instinct’, in which he builds on Chomsky’s assertion of the existence...
Read moreI recently received this link to a video posted on Facebook .
It is presented by Michael Moore and appears to have been made on a visit to...
Read moreCue the usual media images of girls gleefully celebrating their results and Executive Principals extolling the excellence of their schools. There...
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