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,...

JL Dutaut
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...

JL Dutaut
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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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