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Dozens of LAs hold no data on at-home kids potentially at risk, suggesting councils ill-prepared for new duties
Exclusion rates for last Autumn also fell to pre-pandemic levels
Chief inspector says he wants heads to feel 'comfortable and motivated by the changes'
Science for all, minding the language gap, seeing ourselves and teaching fatigue
Changes will make 'little difference' to scores but likely to affect qualification entries, finds Datalab analysis
When used correctly data can help inform important school decisions, but there is always a danger one reads too...
Ask any teacher what they remember from school or college and it won’t be a test score
As history has shown us, any new public policy performance measure leads to the system adapting its behaviour
Deference to machines raises questions not just about what and how we learn, but why, warns Lawrence Foley