Exams: Stick or twist, we need quick decisions from the new DfE It is right to return to pre-Covid grade boundaries as soon as possible, writes Geraint Jones, but we now know we can reduce the pressure of exam season and we should
PM Truss could spell revolution for school-based childcare If it’s a priority for the new PM and the opposition, it’s likely schools will have to wrap their heads around the knotty problem of wrap-around childcare, writes Reza Schwitzer
Why we’re abandoning Oak – and the new DfE should too What started as a charitable and collaborative venture has become a vehicle for creating a government-approved curriculum, writes Jon Coles
The Knowledge: This week’s research highlights Young people’s access to nature, teaching big ideas in primary, the impact of noise, changing behaviours, and girls in STEM
The Review: How Teaching Happens by Paul Kirschner and others Robbie Burns is taken with a writing style and design that make complex ideas accessible – but it’s missing a crucial element
The Conversation – This week in the digital staffroom JL Dutaut takes a look at what’s kept teachers talking this week on Twitter, including a new secretary of state, rising bills and Ofsted’s take on SATs results
Who’d be an education special adviser now? Crisis, time pressures and political self-harm could leave the new DfE team lacking the expertise it needs to deliver, deliver, deliver, writes Gavin Williamson’s former SpAd, Angus Walker
The future is digital – but not exclusively so Technology will help us improve assessment for certain courses and groups of pupils, writes Jo Saxton, but we won’t be drinking the digital Kool-Aid
Social mobility: Pursuit of privilege hampers our progress There are more important divisions to heal in and through state education than the top tier’s upward mobility into privileged positions, writes Mike Ion