Opinion: Leadership

Let’s make Black school leadership the expectation – not the exception

This Black History Month, let's celebrate those who have broken through and join them in lifting others up

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Patrick Cozier
Opinion: Solutions

Five ways to beat the autumn blues with optimistic realism

As excitement about the new academic year invariably gives way to the brutal reality of the long autumn term,...

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Rachel Johnson
Opinion: Curriculum

How morphology can help students avoid ‘the Year 7 dip’

The year 7 dip is beginning to rear its head already. Here’s how leaders can plug a gap in...

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Romany Heartford
Opinion: Accountability

Special schools will need to raise their game – and so will inspectors

The new framework requires us to provide better evidence, but that will come to nought if inspectors aren’t trained...

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Martin Lonergan
Letters to the editor

This week’s best responses from our readers

The wrong kind reading test at the wrong time, the true sign of cultural decline, and cognitive dissonance over...

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Various
Opinion: Accountability

The quiet Ofsted plan that could revolutionise inspection fairness

What could become Ofsted’s most significant reform is one everyone seems to have missed

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Steve Wren
The Research Leader

Do we really know how to attract and retain teachers?

A new Ambition Institute report sheds light on how teachers and non-teachers decide whether the profession is (still) for...

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Dr Sam Sims
Opinion: CPD

Goodbye CPD: Ofsted is ushering in a new era of growth

The renewed framework's focus on professional learning is not just semantic. It could mark the end of fragmented, ineffective...

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Professor Stuart Kime and Professor Rob Coe
The Research Leader

‘Dreadful parents’: What do teachers really think?

Our data shows teachers don't see parents as a key cause of worsening behaviour - but it doesn't let...

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June Stevenson