I am writing this shortly after the Chancellor, George Osborne, made his March 2016 budget announcement that all the remaining Local Authority...
Read moreThis article is an extract from a forthcoming book, The Long Game: The Lessons We Can Learn From Long-Serving Teachers, which will be published...
Read moreIn November, it was reported that children at St George the Martyr Primary School, in Holborn, are being made to keep their hands clasped behind...
Read moreYesterday, the Guardian published an excellent piece by journalist John Harris on the death of creativity and enjoyment of learning our state...
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LSN readers may have been a little puzzled by headlines yesterday, including in the Guardian, proclaiming ‘Soaring state schools...
Read moreLast September, a new player entered the English education market. Floreat Education, a private limited company, opened two primary academies in...
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This book is a truly collaborative effort, a distillation of the thinking and writing of...
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Many years ago, when I was a physics teacher, I gave a test like this to my top set Y11 GCSE students. The results...
Read more“Welcome to Colditz Academy” was The Times Magazine headline introducing a four page article praising the principal, Alison Colwell, for her hard-...
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