Death by a thousand cuts is a lingering loss of life by a thousand small slices. It could easily be a metaphor for the school...
Read moreWhat should schools concentrate on? Building confidence? Encouraging ‘grit’ and resilience? Developing ‘character’? Focusing on...
Read more‘ An exchange scheme that gives teachers in England the opportunity to share experiences with counterparts from Shanghai has...
Read moreRise in number of disappearing KS4 pupils
Off-rolling, whereby secondary schools exclude pupils likely to lower an...
Read moreAlleged ‘grade inflation’ hasn't ended
Remember when Michael Gove used to bang on about grade inflation? His reformed...
Read moreFive challenges face English schools, Robert Halfon, Conservative chair of the Education Select Committee, said yesterday.
He was speaking...
Read moreThe Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) has published what is probably the most comprehensive study yet on ‘The Attainment Gap’ , which has been...
Read more‘It’s too hasty to claim that these improvements [in global reading test PIRLS] are attributable to policy changes…’ says the Department for...
Read moreHackney Downs, a comprehensive boys’ school, was shut in 1995 by Tory education secretary Gillian Shepherd following an unsuccessful campaign to...
Read moreTeaching morale is low these days, what with cuts, workload, high stakes tests... And that’s without twitter drawing attention to self-promoting...
Read moreCue the usual media images of girls gleefully celebrating their results and Executive Principals extolling the excellence of their schools. There...
Read moreThere are permanent ‘system risks’ in education which need constant oversight, Department for Education (DfE) accounts reveal. If these risks are...
Read moreMellissa Benn wrote powerfully about this in a Guardian article of 18 July 201 7:
There could not be a more favourable time for the...
Read moreThis Guardian article reports research arguing for the existence of a class-based conspiracy to prevent the children of poor families getting...
Read moreOnce again, Henry Stewart has posted an important article on Local Schools Network. Henry reproduces a speech by a former head, which he...
Read moreTwo years ago Sir Alasdair Macdonald gave this speech at the Happy Schools conference, organised by the Guardian and my own company...
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 is a very important publication by Reclaiming Schools/NUT.
It is about the corruption and degradation of the primary school...
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