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An early verdict on the new Ofsted framework
Ofsted has been inspecting schools under its new framework for little more than a month. It is probably too early to...
ALEX FORD
Lead PGCE tutor & schools history project fellow, Leeds Trinity University
Changing the educational set menu
As the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education (CLPE) publishes its second Reflecting Realities report, Sonia Thompson reflects on what it...
SONIA THOMPSON
Headteacher, St Matthew's C of E teaching and research school, Birmingham
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What next for school accountability?
Peer review has finally made it on to the political agenda as evidence of its benefits grows, writes Dr Kate Chhatwal,...
Kate Chhatwal
Chief executive of Challenge Partners
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Making trustees trustworthy again after WCAT
The deeper scandal of Wakefield City Academy Trust is that it could all too easily happen again. All that’s required to...
Martin Matthews
National leader of governance
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Taking primary teacher effectiveness to the next level
What do teachers in effective primary schools do? It’s a question teachers, teacher trainers, school leaders and policymakers alike would like...
BRENDA TAGGART
UCL Institute of Education
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Removing parent governors will be seen as power grab to stifle dissent
Three years ago the then education secretary Justine Greening announced she was dropping her predecessor’s proposal to remove the requirement for...
EMMA KNIGHTS
Chief executive National Governance Association
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Time to get serious about children with additional needs
The SEND Code of Practice is routinely broken because a number of factors are not being addressed. Simply moving children around...
JO HUTCHINSON
Director for social mobility and vulnerable learners, Education Policy Institute
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A hundred years of randomness: Dr Ben Styles on education RCTs
On Monday around 100 education researchers and users of research gathered at the Royal Statistical Society to celebrate the centenary of...
DR BEN STYLES
Head of education trials unit, National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER)
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Ofsted’s new framework: From watchdog to service dog?
Last week we got “the call” in one our trust’s primary schools. The second week of September, a new, untested framework,...
DAN MORROW
CEO, Woodland Academies Trust
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Extra cash is welcome, but schools need to stop being wasteful
Promises of more funding will be welcome, but the sector can’t continue using disadvantaged schools as cover for their own irresponsible...
PAUL TARN
Chief executive at Delta Academies Trust
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