How to stop the edtech dream from becoming a safeguarding nightmare The education sector needs to very quickly get very serious about its procurement and governance of technological ‘solutions’
How reform can restore trust in EHCPs (and mainstream SEND provision) Poor-quality EHCPs are just one symptom of a broken system. Here’s how we can begin to put it right for children, families and schools
Government must cut our needless FSM bureaucracy The case for automatic registration for free school meals in unarguable. Government must support the private members’ bill being read today
Can Ofsted listen its way out of its political bind? Scorecards could be on their way back to the drawing board, but eventually Labour’s manifesto promise must be accepted as a manifestly bad idea
Government must act now to secure the future of UK science Filling STEM teacher recruitment gaps and targeting funding at schools in poorer areas would boost the UK economy
Caseworker teams are key to SEND system improvement Neglecting these crucial SEND workers is a key reason the system is in crisis. They deserve a workforce strategy, not opprobrium
The Conversation – with Jess Mahdavi-Gladwell The interpersonal nature of learning, who ‘owns’ SEND in your school, a tricky meeting with the head, and going beyond World Book Day tokenism
A rare opportunity to rethink our damaging bell curve model Our system of ranking students at 16 causes untold damage. It’s time for the 14-18 curriculum the sector has long called for
How we’re empowering teachers with high-quality assessment Our new assessment model delivers transformative capacity for key stage 3 – and you can try it out for yourself for free