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
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 much into the numbers
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
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
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
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 Anne Heavey
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
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
Thousands of retired teachers die before pensions row settled New data reveals the scale of the backlog in remedy cases facing the Teachers’ Pension Scheme’s embattled administrators Capita