Pupil wellbeing and academic attainment? You can have both… It is not wrong to pursue higher attainment, but research suggests that it’s how you go about it that matters
The best schools have autonomy – don’t take it away Devolution needs to empower schools, not give them another layer of bureaucracy
AI is the new face of online misinformation The focus needs to be on how we prepare children for the world AI is already shaping
Get reading right to boost white working class outcomes We won’t improve outcomes for white disadvantaged pupils unless we take reading fluency seriously
We need a more ethnically representative teaching workforce Overall, there are fewer ethnic minority teachers in England, as a proportion, than ethnic minority pupils
We say SATs don’t define children, but they shape their experiences for years to come The test was designed to measure the school. Somewhere along the way, we started using it to measure the child
Ofsted must remember that even similar schools are different If contextual benchmarking is to work, it must help inspectors understand context without lowering ambitions
Don’t ignore local context in a rush to nationalise the MBacc Success absolutely cannot mean a reform that works well in core cities and patchily everywhere else
Strong boards need both organisational memory and fresh perspective Recruitment is of course important, but the data shows effective governance is also built through retention