Opinion: Accountability

Ofsted and DfE must open their eyes to the realities of ‘disadvantage’

The inspectorate’s data-blind approach treats disadvantage as a homogenous category and hampers efforts to close attainment gaps

JL Dutaut
Meena Kumari Wood and Julie Price-Grimshaw
Opinion: Attendance

Home visits are part of a strong attendance policy

We must have the difficult conversation about parents who don’t play by the rules if we’re going to change...

JL Dutaut
David Scales
Manifesto 2024

Five policy priorities for closing disadvantage gaps

Five policies to restart the virtuous cycle between educational outcomes and economic prosperity

JL Dutaut
Sir Dan Moynihan
Opinion: Solutions

Six strategies to encourage reading for pleasure

A few tips to ensure that a rich, robust, rigorous and rewarding reading culture becomes a reality in your...

JL Dutaut
Deborah Maclaren
Opinion: Workforce

Five recommendations to make the ECF truly sustainable

A major new report on the early career framework points the way towards ensuring the reforms deliver their full...

JL Dutaut
Sam Twiselton
Opinion: Curriculum

Improving the art educational journey matters for all students

A new report by Runnymede Trust shows a gulf between the diversity teachers and students want, and the reality...

JL Dutaut
Dr Shabna Begum
Opinion: Curriculum

Work experience must change to reflect a new world of work

The biggest research ever undertaken in England shows employers and young people alike need a different approach

JL Dutaut
Baroness Morgan of Cotes and Lord Blunkett
The Knowledge

How are SENDCOs managing amid rising pressures?

New research reveals the pressures of escalating need and insufficient resource – but diverging views of the SENDCO role...

JL Dutaut
Rik Chilvers
Opinion: Attendance

Attendance: Another fine mess the government’s got us into

Punishing struggling families by making them struggle more is outdated, regressive and completely counter-productive

JL Dutaut
Ed Dorrell