Debra Kidd’s top blogs of the week 1 April 2019

The strand curriculum in Year 7 biology Christian Moore – @Biogogy I stumbled across this when I was trawling...

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Debra Kidd’s top blogs of the week 11 Feb 2019

Questions to help you review your key stage 3 curriculum – one big history department @Histassoc Although this post...

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Debra Kidd’s top blogs of the week 10 Dec 2018

My Top 10 Picturebooks 2018 (actually 13) @smithsmm Anyone teaching children to love and appreciate books should follow Simon...

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Debra Kidd’s top blogs of the week 29 Oct 2018

School Shaming and the Reactionary Politics of NeoTrads @doxtdatorb Ben Doxtdator’s blog posts are always thought provoking, well informed...

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Debra Kidd’s top blogs of the week 15 May 2017

Our blog reviewer this week is Debra Kidd, an author and former teacher. Here are her top picks from...

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Opinion

Multiple-choice exams plus portfolios – proposal for a new assessment system

Marking can never be 100 per cent reliable. So perhaps it is time, says one-time examiner Debra Kidd, to...

Debra Kidd
Debra Kidd

The Old Boys: The Decline and Rise of the Public School

Boys rebelling because there is too little beer; teachers drowning in failed attempts to cut willow whips: in this...

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Opinion

‘If I were education secretary…’

I would ask to stay in my job for the rest of the government’s term and in that time...

Debra Kidd
Debra Kidd