SEND Review: Why it’s time to ditch the meritocratic myth We must rethink troubling assumptions at the heart of the SEND green paper in order to restore dignity to a failing system, write Ben Newmark and Tom Rees
Tory leadership: A chance to tackle selection once and for all As the candidates gear up for a televised debate, Mike Ion suggests Rishi Sunak should come out fighting for evidence-led policy and against academic selection
Pay award: This ‘landmark’ settlement lands wide of the mark What was meant to be a fully-funded and inflation-busting settlement has managed to be neither and please no one, writes Micon Metcalfe
This pay award confirms my decision to leave This ‘best and fairest pay deal’ is a timely reminder of why I decided to leave, writes Will Yates. Schools and their staff are just not taken seriously
We must not sleepwalk into ditching the national curriculum The schools bill threatens to make the national curriculum obsolete, writes Tim Oates, and that’s not a good thing at all
Heatwave: Keeping cool is a concern for the future too There is little schools can do to mitigate extreme weather without investment to make the estate more resilient, efficient and sustainable, writes Steven Reynolds
Real inclusion starts with our schools’ workforce Inclusion is a core educational value, write the co-leads of Eden Academy Trust’s anti-racism working party, and we can and should be doing more to ensure that applies to our staff too
How did we do at diversifying your curriculum this year? We’ve built on last year’s progress in diversifying our content, writes JL Dutaut, but there’s more to be done and a renewed sense of urgency
Five research insights that got us thinking in 2021/22 The last word of every Schools Week edition is often the first you’ll hear of new educational research that goes on to make a big impact. Here are five of this year’s must-reads