Academies, so the Government says, are so necessary for school improvement that it wants all English schools to convert. But the data for this...
Read moreBradley Simmons, Ofsted regional director for the South East, recently wrote to Reading Borough Council raising concerns about the drop in GCSE...
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English children are now the most heavily tested in the world – and a revolt is building within weeks of the...
Read moreThe speech by Education Secretary Nicky Morgan to the NASUWT conference had a ‘relatively polite reception’, Schools Week writes. But a few jeers...
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The government has announced that all schools are to be forced to become academies . However the...
Read moreThe cognitive development of individual pupils should become the key objective of the primary and secondary school curriculum and there should be...
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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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...
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