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Podcast review: The Trojan Horse Affair

Criticising the accuracy of this podcast shouldn’t detract from its revelations about our double standards when it comes to race and religion, writes Will Yates

Melissa Jane’s blogs of the week, 21 February 2022

This week’s blogs cover teachers’ use of social media, teaching when everyone is watching, and a personal journey from behaviourism to relational practice

What a surprise: teachers are in the firing line again

Simple solutions were available, writes Vic Goddard. Instead, we have complex and confused exam mitigations that could compound Covid’s unequal effects

Research ethics need a new responsibility to teachers

Researchers’ lack of ethical responsibility to teachers wastes effort and harms pupils, writes Thomas Martell. So what are we waiting for to change it?

Elite sixth forms? Let’s focus on the really big problems

Let’s start ‘levelling up’ by properly funding existing sixth forms, writes James Handscombe, then we can worry about other bigger problems than the top 3 per cent

Primary targets make levelling up mission: improbable

Dizzyingly ambitious targets backed only by business-as-usual solutions show up the ‘levelling up’ proposals as hollow and evasive, writes Jo Hutchinson

How is the cost of living crisis affecting teachers and schools?

Iain Ford sets out what we know about the state of teachers’ finances – and what the rising cost of living might mean for recruitment and retention

Let that be a lesson by Ryan Wilson

A pleasant and heartfelt account of one man’s brief journey into and out of education, Let That Be a Lesson left me feeling sad that our profession is failing to hang on to teachers like Wilson. By his own account in this book, he was frantic to enter the profession from childhood, yet he rocketed […]

Ruby Bhatti’s blogs of the week, 7 February 2022

Chair and trustee, Ruby Bhatti’s pick of the blogs cover leadership conversations, workload, virtual governorship, and including vulnerable learners