How morphology can help students avoid ‘the Year 7 dip’ The year 7 dip is beginning to rear its head already. Here’s how leaders can plug a gap in their literacy strategy to make their curriculum more accessible
Special schools will need to raise their game – and so will inspectors The new framework requires us to provide better evidence, but that will come to nought if inspectors aren’t trained to recognise it
This week’s best responses from our readers The wrong kind reading test at the wrong time, the true sign of cultural decline, and cognitive dissonance over AI’s costs and benefits
The quiet Ofsted plan that could revolutionise inspection fairness What could become Ofsted’s most significant reform is one everyone seems to have missed
Do we really know how to attract and retain teachers? A new Ambition Institute report sheds light on how teachers and non-teachers decide whether the profession is (still) for them
Goodbye CPD: Ofsted is ushering in a new era of growth The renewed framework’s focus on professional learning is not just semantic. It could mark the end of fragmented, ineffective CPD
‘Dreadful parents’: What do teachers really think? Our data shows teachers don’t see parents as a key cause of worsening behaviour – but it doesn’t let parents off the hook completely either
How can we finally make financial education a reality? Our gold-standard research shows how government can deliver what the public at large wants – without over-burdening teachers
How to unleash the power of multilingualism in school The decline in formal language learning coincides with a growing abundance of languages in our classrooms. Here’s how to use the latter to combat the former