Opinion

A sudden desire to trust teachers hints at a poisoned chalice

After months of dithering and conflicting messages, the government’s latest noises on trust in teacher grading look likely to...

JL Dutaut
DAME ALISON PEACOCK
Opinion

Will the current lockdown ease financial pressures on schools? 

A new report by the NFER shows that regardless of lockdown all schools are struggling with Covid-related schools and...

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JENNA JULIUS

Review: Secondary Curriculum Transformed. Enabling All to Achieve

Zoe Enser’s review finds a book on curriculum with too much breadth and too little depth Secondary Curriculum Transformed...

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Sonia Thompson’s blogs of the week, 18 January 2021

The power of short stories, books for social and emotional learning, improving online resources and home-learning engagement are this...

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Opinion

Migrant children need targeted support through lockdown

These are the strategies we need in order to address the particular problems faced by migrant children during the...

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Dr Shoba Arun and Aleksandra Szymczyk
The lockdown diary

New year’s revolutions

Dan Morrow opens his lockdown diary to document another topsy-turvy week in education leadership

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DAN MORROW
Opinion

Our media are making the hardest of situations harder

The venom habitually directed at the teaching profession by the media commentariat has plumbed new lows during the lockdowns,...

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SARAH GALLAGHER
Opinion

What are schools’ emerging priorities in this new lockdown?

Lockdown 2.0 is having a much greater effect on primaries while inequalities continue to manifest, writes Laura McInerney This...

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LAURA MCINERNEY

Excluded, a ‘young people-led’ documentary on school exclusions

Despite some misleading stats, Cath Murray finds a well-made documentary with simple yet powerful solutions to reducing exclusions It...

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