I have just watched Emily Thornbury on the Andrew Marr show (11 Nov 2018) being asked about the view of the London Mayor that, “the problem would...
Read moreI return to the work of Professor Rebecca (Becky) Allen , Director of the Centre for Education Improvement Science, UCL Institute of Education,...
Read moreI refer to the work of Professor Rebecca (Becky) Allen , Director of the Centre for Education Improvement Science, UCL Institute of Education, who...
Read moreEvidence that the title of this article should be taken seriously can be found here and here .
On 7 October 2018 I wrote to the Fair...
Read moreAt the start of 2018, I was appointed governor of a local junior school. And a very good school it is too, with an excellent head and dedicated,...
Read moreThe Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) has published a seven part guide to improving secondary science teaching .
It is excellent, and...
Read moreThis 1999 paper by Professor Michael Shayer is of enormous significance for the future of the English education system and the way that school...
Read moreShortly to be published research by Professor Michael Shayer reveals an accidental breakthrough in how highly significant cognitive development in...
Read moreThe ‘north/south attainment gap’ claimed to exist by The Sutton Trust, The Social Mobility Foundation, the DfE, the National Schools Commissioner...
Read moreI have received this response from The Sutton Trust to my article questioning the ‘attainment gap’ .
Research by John Goldthorpe has...
Read moreFormer Education Secretary Justine Greening has been speaking at the Sutton Trust .
Former Education Secretary Justine Greening’s...
Read moreOn 31 March 2018, I watched a BBC 2 Sir David Attenborough programme about birds’s eggs. Although I have only a modest interest in garden birds,...
Read moreThe case for reason, science, humanism and progress, by Steven Pinker
Book Review by Roger Titcombe.
Steven Pinker is Johnstone...
Read moreAnswer: when it’s a general cognitive ability.
In the behaviourist ideology of the Global Education Reform Movement (GERM) that is...
Read moreThis is the latest example from a BBC report of 3 August.
“The very poorest children in England have fallen even further behind their...
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 moreFor many years the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) , which is part funded by the Department for Education, has been evaluating approaches to...
Read moreThe width and depth of this misunderstanding is demonstrated in this Guardian headline .
New test for ‘growth mindset’, the theory that...
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