Opinion

This week’s best responses from our readers

Science for all, minding the language gap, seeing ourselves and teaching fatigue

Freddie Whittaker
Various
Curriculum review

Progress 8: A third of pupils’ GCSE entries don’t fit reformed measure

Changes will make 'little difference' to scores but likely to affect qualification entries, finds Datalab analysis

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Opinion

Question level analysis is a waste of your time… so stop

When used correctly data can help inform important school decisions, but there is always a danger one reads too...

Freddie Whittaker
John Jerrim
Opinion

New enrichment benchmarks will be a boost, not a burden

Ask any teacher what they remember from school or college and it won’t be a test score

Freddie Whittaker
Liz Robinson and Ruth Marvel
Opinion

Beyond EBacc: How to get the next accountability shift right

As history has shown us, any new public policy performance measure leads to the system adapting its behaviour

Freddie Whittaker
Tim Oates
Opinion

As AI does our work, it may destroy the reasons we learn

Deference to machines raises questions not just about what and how we learn, but why, warns Lawrence Foley

Freddie Whittaker
Lawrence Foley
Opinion

Why it’s time to turn SEND training ‘inside out’

Working from a diagnosis seems obvious but has limitations – so teachers need to anticipate pupils’ needs, says Dr...

Freddie Whittaker
Dr Anne Heavey
early years

Ministers urge primaries to consider childminders on site

Schools without space for full nursery told to consider teaming up with childminder to provide early years provision

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Behaviour

Schools to face legal duty to record seclusion use

New legislation would mean schools must record their use of non-disciplinary isolation and report it to parents

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker