Jon Hutchinson’s blogs of the week, 11 January 2020

Principles and practices of remote teaching, overcoming polarised debates and the tyranny of content over curriculum are Jon Hutchinson’s...

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Features

In conversation with… virtual school heads

Virtual school heads, Jancis Andrew and Calvin Kipling tell JL Dutaut we need to unpick what we mean by...

JL Dutaut
JL Dutaut
Opinion

School improvement doesn’t come in a flat-pack

We’ll only get sustained school improvement when we start to treat teachers and school leaders as masters of their...

JL Dutaut
CHRIS KIRKHAM-KNOWLES
The lockdown diary

The 2020 ‘holidays’

The lockdown diary is back and this term’s first instalment catalogues the cluster-farce that led to its announcement

JL Dutaut
JONATHAN MOUNTSTEVENS
Opinion

Repeated omission of special schools points to an ableist department

Special schools could be forgiven for thinking the department is ableist given that they are routinely treated as less...

JL Dutaut
DR LAURAN DOAK
Exams

Cancelling exams is the wrong decision. They should be reinstated

Far from the worst thing the DfE could do, changing its mind and reinstating exams would be the best...

JL Dutaut
STUART LOCK
Opinion

Could education research be leading the profession astray?

Applying metascientific methods to education research reveals some worrying biases but simple steps can help us navigate our way...

JL Dutaut
BAZ RAMAIAH

Robin Conway’s blogs of the week, 4 January 2021

Certainty in uncertain times, parental engagement, cutting workload, lateral flow tests and a comedic look at the philosophy of...

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Review: Educating for a Characterful Society

Stephen Lane reviews a book with strong arguments for the importance of character education but too little ackowledgment of...

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