Opinion: Attendance

Persistent absence: ‘Obsessing about attendance’ is not enough

Post-Covid attendance rates signal a deeper malaise that requires more complex solutions than a punitive approach, says Jeffery Quaye...

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Dr Jeffery Quaye
ChatGPT

Children misusing ChatGPT? It’s the adults you need to watch

Behind the hand-wringing over ChatGPT empowering children to cheat is a much bigger threat: adults misusing these nascent educational...

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Cesare Aloisi
The Knowledge

Why homogeneous SEND guidance lets schools and pupils down

The case of systematic synthetic phonics (SSP) demonstrates the risks of treating students with SEND as a homogeneous group,...

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Dr Lila Kossyvaki

The Review: Lunana. A Yak In The Classroom

It may not land with the more cynical viewer but Lunana's protrayal of teaching is heartening and raises some...

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The Conversation – with Frances Akinde

This week's conversation focuses on Ofsted, mental health, breaking the silence and imagining a better future

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Opinion: SEND

6 changes every leader can make for a more autism-friendly school

Marking autism acceptance week, Jo Galloway sets out six small changes every school can make to be more inclusive...

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Jo Galloway
Opinion

How the EEF has scaled up and levelled up Covid catch-up

An independent evaluation of EEF Accelerator Fund activity highlights the work’s success at scaling up catch-up interventions in under-served...

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Becky Francis
Opinion: Solutions

How to ensure neuroeducation actually improves teacher performance 

The rapid revolution in neuroeducation risks being lost to mutations and poor implementation unless we shift from ‘what works’...

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Ross Morrison McGill
UTCs

How trusts can turn around a faltering but unique UTC sector

Our trusts have proven the nay-sayers wrong and shown what UTC provision can truly deliver for pupils and communities,...

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Dean Ashton and Owen McColgan