For many years the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) , which is part funded by the Department for Education, has been evaluating approaches to...
Read moreSince I published this article I have received a lot of email correspondence from internationally respected academics. The general thrust of this...
Read moreThis article shows that the East Asian education systems that come out at the top of the PISA rankings sink to the bottom half of the table when...
Read more1. Is it the schools, the parents or the children?
The Chinese education system regularly scores highly in the international PISA tests,...
Read moreMy article, ‘ Why maketisation invalidates Progress 8 ‘, addresses the concern that the production of high stakes performance measures for schools...
Read moreDoes your family make you smarter? by James Flynn
Book Review by Roger Titcombe
James Flynn is an internationally respected,...
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Although this could be one my most important articles in relation...
Read moreReaders of this blog will have heard of the "Panama Papers." This huge leak of documents from the Panama law firm Mossach Fonseca has disclosed a...
Read moreThis is pointed out in an important Guardian/Observer article .
My central argument, supported by data from real school case studies set...
Read moreThis is at the core of any discussion about the purpose and nature of schooling.
There are many clichés in ‘edu-speak’. A very common...
Read moreThe cognitive development of individual pupils should become the key objective of the primary and secondary school curriculum and there should be...
Read moreIn 1958, after being on the council housing list since the end of the war, my parents were offered a two bedroom flat in a new tower block on a...
Read moreI have just read a book by Matthew Syed entitled ‘ Black Box Thinking ‘ (2015), John Murray.
Despite the title, it is about, learning from...
Read moreDespite the title, it is about, learning from...
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