Teaching

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06.03.20 by

This is the last article I will post on Local Schools Network. It’s time for me to stop chasing stories about the goings-on in...

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Ofsted chief, Amanda Spielman, published a ‘commentary on school funding’ this morning. But the blog, potentially embarrassing...

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It’s essential for young people to be able to talk to ‘providers of technical education and apprenticeships’ in school if they...

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Turner Free School , one of four schools run by Turner Schools, has ‘exceptional scholars’, an ‘amazing PFTA’, ‘amazing faculty...

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Yesterday, the Tate group asked the new government to provide sufficient funding for an ‘arts-rich curriculum’.

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‘ We cannot let Michael Gove’s sterling work be wasted. The former Education Secretary was passionate in his desire to improve...

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A nationwide campaign to ensure children starting school would be ‘ready to learn’ was launched by the Department for Education...

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The SEND reforms of 2014 were right: they put children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND)...

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‘I believe passionately that talent, skill & genius is distributed uniformly across the UK, but opportunity is not...

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The Times published three articles today about special needs funding in England. A good thing, you might think, given the two...

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This site’s being saying it for years: reforms to state education in England introduced by Michael Gove are a retrograde step...

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Pupils in England are more segregated by ability than almost every other country in the world, analysis by John Jerrim ,...

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You would think the Children’s Commissioner Anne Longfield would know better. She is, after all, supposed to be the advocate for...

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Behaviourism is back and it’s taking over

A ‘delivery’ paradigm is taking over English schools. In our marketised education system the...

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The DfE media department has yet to respond to the National Audit Office report criticising provision for pupils with special educational needs...

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Dominic Cummings, Boris Johnson’s chief adviser who was once consigliere to Michael Gove at the Department for Education, is ‘...

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The ethnicity ‘attainment gap’

The Education Policy Institute (EPI) has produced a table showing ‘attainment gaps’ for ethnic...

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This is a consultation run by TES. This is the blurb.

Nearly a third of students who took...

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