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What works for children in the most privileged schools will not work for everyone

While the media continues to focus on the grammar school debate and the issue of selection, I fear we...

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Payment by results: that would never happen now… or would it?

Zimmer-framed educationist that I am, I was delighted to discover Schools Week’s new column on the history of education....

Colin Richards
Colin Richards
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Free school meals are still the best measure of deprivation

It may not be the clearest way to allocate extra funds to disadvantaged pupils, but it’s the best there...

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Forget grammars! Sixth-form colleges are engines of social mobility

The government should consider how greater investment in sixth-form colleges could drive up standards, says James Kewin Sixth-form colleges...

James Kewin
James Kewin
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School are not mini-immigration offices – and never should be

Schools should not make parents show their children’s passports. For anything. That’s a really simple rule. It’s also a...

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney
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Academies are vital to May’s reform agenda

The government’s determination to expand selection must be done within the current system – and that includes academies, says...

Amy Finch
Amy Finch
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Minority ethnic students are baffled by British values

Research corner with Dr Alison Davies, associate lecturer at the Open University. What have you been working on? We...

Research Contributor
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No one is talking about a return to the 11-plus

An element of selection will not necessarily lead to a return of the secondary modern, says Heath Monk. However,...

Heath Monk
Heath Monk
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If you can pass the test you’re in. But who benefits?

The grammar schools proposal could be described as a “great right-wing fraud”, says David Blunkett… pretending you are delivering to...

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