Opinion: Policy

Working-class kids don’t need fixing – our system does

Here’s how Labour can finally deliver on its decades-long promise of a truly comprehensive and inclusive system – and…

JL Dutaut
Michael Cater
The Research Leader

The Knowledge: Uncovering the unknown unknowns of inclusion

Drawing on insights from over 26,000 staff and students, here’s how schools can move beyond surface-level metrics to foster…

JL Dutaut
Nic Ponsford
The Research Leader

Research: Is governance ready for what’s coming?

A new research project aims to find out whether governance is risk-aware, resilient and ready for the challenges schools…

JL Dutaut
Dr Rajbir Hazelwood
Opinion: Curriculum review

Four steps to improve curriculum and assessment in science

The need and appetite for reform of the science curriculum are clear. Here’s how we can deliver for students,…

JL Dutaut
Les Hopper
Recruitment and retention

An impoverished work-life drives too many teachers out

The default position that teaching should be professionally (and sometimes personally) all-encompassing is a retention own-goal

John Dickens
Nansi Ellis and Haili Hughes
SEND solutions

We must reclaim our role as SEND and AP’s fixers. ASAP

New project aims to gather and broadcast the solutions to the SEND funding crisis that are lighting the way…

John Dickens
Emma Bradshaw and Tom Legge
The Research Leader

Are schools pushing views about race on their pupils?

Our new research shows some students’ free speech is being limited – but not in the ways some commentators…

JL Dutaut
Professor Karl Kitching
Opinion: Politics

Continuity at the top is crucial to Labour’s opportunity mission

Talk of a reshuffle may have the education secretary’s detractors excited, but it would be bad news for a…

JL Dutaut
Simon Kidwell
The Curriculum Conversation

The last thing history needs is more revolution

History teachers already have the tools to drive improvement. We mustn’t jeopardise that in the quest to modernise

JL Dutaut
Michael Fordham

Must Read

Opinion: Solutions

Five do-now strategies to ease the Year 7 dip

Here’s what we’ve learned from our programme to tackle disengagement in an area where the problem is pervasive

JL Dutaut
Rebecca Maw
Opinion: Inclusion

What the inclusion push can learn from Haringey

AP is a lifeline, not a footnote. Haringey’s model shows what’s possible when we prioritise its pupils and their…

JL Dutaut
Cllr Zena Brabazon
Opinion: CPD

NPQs must evolve to avoid a policy ‘boom and bust’

In many ways, this is the golden age of professional development, but there’s a gap in our provision which…

JL Dutaut
Poppy Nobes

ITT

ITT

Degree apprenticeships are key to increasing and diversifying recruitment

Work to deliver the new qualification should continue at pace to meet recruitment challenges by making teaching more accessible,…

JL Dutaut
Melanie Renowden
ITT

ITT: Which is the odd one out?

The deeply flawed ITT reforms are a threat to sustainable teacher supply for purely ideological purposes, writes David Spendlove

JL Dutaut
David Spendlove
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Exams

University clearing: How teachers can support students 

All the important details school staff need to help youngsters through clearing this year

John Dickens
Sam Sykes
Exams

How sitting an exam re-affirmed my respect for our students

I still believe exams to be the best way of testing academic knowledge and understanding but they’re no bagatelle,…

JL Dutaut
James Handscombe
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