Stat of the nation

What’s really behind white low-income pupils’ underperformance?

A deep dive into new data reveals attention to this cohort is not just political grandstanding

JL Dutaut
John Jerrim
Letters to the editor

This week’s best responses from our readers

Missing! A piece of the admissions puzzle. A ministerial responsibility. Support for familes. And clarity from Ofsted.

JL Dutaut
Various
Opinion: Policy

It’s time to champion school support staff and boost their rights

Their pay and conditions are a priority for me as education secretary and will remain so if I become...

Freddie Whittaker
Bridget Phillipson
Opinion: Curriculum

Here’s what every ‘phonics for maths’ programme should deliver

Our new benchmarks aim to take the debate out of what the phrase means and set us on the...

JL Dutaut
Louise Pennington
Opinion: CPD

Didagogy: Teacher training’s missing component

Despite recent progress, we’re still getting teacher and leader development wrong too often. This new concept hopes to put...

JL Dutaut
Professor Sam Twiselton
Opinion: Accountability

Ofsted’s ill-considered inclusion judgment is a poisoned chalice

As well intentioned and ambitious the key judgement is, the absence of detail will result in inconsistency across the...

JL Dutaut
Meena Wood
Opinion: SEND

Six changes Labour must make to the SEND code of practice

With a SEND white paper due this autumn, six professionals offer simple legislative changes they say would revolutionise inclusion...

JL Dutaut
Jude Macdonald
Opinion: Politics

Class politics: How old school voting habits are unravelling

A new poll showing private school alumni are most likely to vote for Labour reveals just how dramatically politics...

John Dickens
Louis O’Geran
Opinion: Funding

SEND funding must align with the government’s inclusive vision

Our reactive, deficit model of need is matched by our reactive funding model and budget deficits. Both need to...

JL Dutaut
Benedicte Yue and Dr Peter Gray