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Opinion: Politics

Politicians must set out a brighter vision for children

Reclaiming childhood is key to winning the hearts and minds of disenfranchised communities. Here’s what Labour and the Conservatives…

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Will Bickford Smith
Opinion: Workforce

The review into leadership NPQs is starting in the wrong place

The way DfE are going about it will not generate the information they need to drive improvement

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Gareth Conyard and Steve Lancashire
Opinion: Curriculum review

The maths curriculum must catch up with mastery

Maths has a reputation as being a subject you’re either naturally good at or not. But the world’s top-performing…

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Dr Helen Drury and David Monis-Weston
Opinion: Inclusion

We need to advocate for poor white boys – or others will

The opportunity mission must unashamedly include white working-class children or others will capitalise on their disenfranchisement

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Nick Osborne
Opinion: Estates

‘High and rising standards’ must apply to buildings too

How can we deliver the government’s inclusive vision if its own rebuilding programme drives building standards down?

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Rebecca Black
Opinion: Funding

Narrow conversations about school budgets miss the big picture

Crucial parts of the story of school budgets are too often left on the cutting room floor. Finance teams…

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Steve Rollett
Opinion: Solutions

Ditching EHCPs could result in better resource allocation

The EHCP approach and the incentives that flow from it are the primary cause of the SEND crisis. We’d…

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Matt Hood
Opinion: Attendance

How Labour can solve the attendance crisis (again)

A new Institute for Government report suggests the government don’t have to look far for solutions to getting absence…

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Tim Leunig

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IPPR associate director Avnee Morjaria has taught, inspected and worked in government. Now she is influencing policy from…

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The Knowledge

How can we better train and retain SENCos?

Our programme’s evaluation points to three key ways SEND leaders can be better supported to thrive in their roles…

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Is young people’s mental health finally recovering after Covid?

Our new report reveals grounds for optimism that the post-Covid mental health crisis is ebbing – but no room…

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Jane Lunnon and Jon Needham
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Is a mobile phone ban in schools the right policy aim?

The Netflix series Adolescence has created a new wave of political pressure for a national ban on smartphones in…

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Antony Bainbridge
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Is a formal dyslexia diagnosis valuable?

Jamie Oliver’s new campaign wants to change the system for children with dyslexia, but is the label a useful…

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Dr Angela Thompson and Professor Clare Wood
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How to crack the secondary attendance challenge

Our new report gathers the voices of teachers and students to find out what works in getting young people…

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Matthew Walker
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Is coaching really the ideal form of professional development?

Coaching is education’s new professional development buzzword – but does the evidence bear out its growing use?

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Our new survey reveals huge benefits for early adopters – but a profession in need of guidance and support

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How to respond to the growing problem of school avoidance, a challenging take on breakfast clubs, and new nutritional…

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The Conversation – with Zara Simpson

Engaging parents in transitions, embedding digital literacy across the curriculum, and supporting pupils with speech, language and communication needs…

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The Conversation – with Sarah Gallagher

The curriculum review, the ‘manosphere’, optimistic leadership, and where our ideas of who to listen to come from

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The Conversation – with Frances Akinde

Advocacy and social action, Ofsted and inclusion, maths manipulatives, home educators’ concerns and a poem about belonging

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The Conversation – with Sarah Baker, CEO, TEAM Education Trust

Managing micro-transitions, the hidden benefits of breakfast clubs, and the importance of speech and language for wellbeing

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The Conversation – with Jess Mahdavi-Gladwells

The interpersonal nature of learning, who ‘owns’ SEND in your school, a tricky meeting with the head, and going…

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The Conversation – with Shekeila Scarlett

A new government ‘AI playbook’, the importance of early careers education, and the children’s commissioner’s new youth advisory panel…

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The Conversation – with Fiona Atherton

Fast and slow thinking in school leadership, Ofsted’s consultation, and the Sunday-night scaries

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