Opinion: Curriculum

Diversifying literature? Talk to your librarian

The school library is the perfect place to showcase and support initiatives to offer pupils a broader English literature...

JL Dutaut
DANUTA ZALEGA
Literacy

Dismissal of research leaves us stuck in the reading wars

Misinformed criticisms of our work show reconciliation of the reading wars is still some way off, write Alice Bradbury...

JL Dutaut
ALICE BRADBURY and DOMINIC WYSE
Destinations

Long-term destinations data could transform schools – and lives

A new report shows the long-term data Ark are already using to guide students could be further enriched -...

JL Dutaut
SARAH TAUNTON
Exams

Exams head us back to normality. Now for league tables

Ofqual is ensuring students get the exams they want in the fairest way possible, writes Gareth Stevens, but schools...

JL Dutaut
GARETH STEVENS
The Knowledge

How can schools narrow the disadvantage gap?

Regardless of support to deliver the 'levelling up' agenda, it’s every school’s mission – and research provides useful best...

JL Dutaut
NICK WOOD
Exams

What a surprise: teachers are in the firing line again

Simple solutions were available, writes Vic Goddard. Instead, we have complex and confused exam mitigations that could compound Covid’s...

JL Dutaut
VIC GODDARD
The Knowledge

Research ethics need a new responsibility to teachers

Researchers’ lack of ethical responsibility to teachers wastes effort and harms pupils, writes Thomas Martell. So what are we...

JL Dutaut
THOMAS MARTELL
Levelling up

Elite sixth forms? Let’s focus on the really big problems

Let’s start ‘levelling up’ by properly funding existing sixth forms, writes James Handscombe, then we can worry about other...

JL Dutaut
JAMES HANDSCOMBE
Levelling up

Primary targets make levelling up mission: improbable

Dizzyingly ambitious targets backed only by business-as-usual solutions show up the ‘levelling up’ proposals as hollow and evasive, writes...

JL Dutaut
JO HUTCHINSON