That humans are differently endowed across every measurable parameter is an established fact. It is also a fact that the education world...
Read moreExam pressure causes stress – it’s well-known. And a little stress can improve performance – a ‘chilled’ attitude can cause underachievement and...
Read moreUsing calculators can improve pupils’ calculating and problem-solving skills, the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) has found.
To...
Read moreThis is the title of a publication by ‘More than a score’.
More than a score is a broad coalition established by the largest teachers’...
Read moreThe Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) has published what is probably the most comprehensive study yet on ‘The Attainment Gap’ , which has been...
Read moreWe’ve been here before. Time and again this site has said there isn’t enough data to come to a firm conclusion about the performance of free...
Read moreAmanda Spielman, Ofsted’s chief inspectors, welcomes the Association of School and College Leaders’ (ASCL) Commission on ethical leadership in her...
Read more‘Thousands more children on track to become fluent readers’, says schools minister Nick Gibb in a Department for Education press release published...
Read moreGeorge Orwell thought semicolons were unnecessary. Kurt Vonnegut loathed them. The first rule of creative writing , he said, was ‘Do not use...
Read moreThis year nearly 40% of children in their last year at primary school have been told they did not reach the ‘expected standard’ in Key Stage 2...
Read moreCuckoo Hall, Enfield, was one of former Education Secretary Michael Gove’s favourite primary schools. The headteacher, Patricia Sowter, was one of...
Read moreThis is a very important publication by Reclaiming Schools/NUT.
It is about the corruption and degradation of the primary school...
Read moreThe Standards and Assessment Agency, the quango responsible for setting tests in primary schools, is ‘ broadly fit for purpose ’, the review into...
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My article, ‘ Why maketisation invalidates Progress 8 ‘, addresses the concern that the production of high stakes performance measures for schools...
Read moreFirst, the good news in yesterday's written statement : plans to make Year 7 pupils resit end-of-primary tests if they didn’t reach the expected...
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It's been a busy couple of weeks. No I don't mean trying to keep up with the headlines or the fallout from the headlines, though I can't say that...
Read moreEnglish school children are among the most tested in the world. Yet there’s no evidence frequent, mandatory, national tests raise educational...
Read moreZombie statistics rose from the dead yesterday in Parliament when Angela Rayner , shadow education secretary, called on the government to review...
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