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Taking primary teacher effectiveness to the next level

What do teachers in effective primary schools do? It’s a question teachers, teacher trainers, school leaders and policymakers alike…

Victoria

BRENDA TAGGART

Opinion

What next for school accountability?

Peer review has finally made it on to the political agenda as evidence of its benefits grows, writes Dr…

Victoria

Kate Chhatwal

Opinion

Making trustees trustworthy again after WCAT

The deeper scandal of Wakefield City Academy Trust is that it could all too easily happen again. All that’s…

Victoria

Martin Matthews

Opinion

Removing parent governors will be seen as power grab to stifle dissent

Three years ago the then education secretary Justine Greening announced she was dropping her predecessor’s proposal to remove the…

John Dickens

EMMA KNIGHTS

Opinion

A hundred years of randomness: Dr Ben Styles on education RCTs

On Monday around 100 education researchers and users of research gathered at the Royal Statistical Society to celebrate the…

Expert Contributor

DR BEN STYLES

Opinion

Time to get serious about children with additional needs

The SEND Code of Practice is routinely broken because a number of factors are not being addressed. Simply moving…

Expert Contributor

JO HUTCHINSON

Opinion

Ofsted’s new framework: From watchdog to service dog?

Last week we got “the call” in one our trust’s primary schools. The second week of September, a new,…

JL Dutaut

DAN MORROW

Opinion

Most schools have taken at least one measure to reduce spending in the last year, a new survey shows

Extra cash is welcome, but schools need to stop being wasteful

Promises of more funding will be welcome, but the sector can’t continue using disadvantaged schools as cover for their…

John Dickens

PAUL TARN

Opinion

How Labour’s ‘back to the future’ Ofsted plans can work

Labour’s recently announced plan for remodelled school inspection reads as a hopeful case of “back to the future”. Its…

John Dickens

COLIN RICHARDS

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Opinion: Solutions

How to mitigate disadvantage in the classroom

We must get under the bonnet of disadvantage as it applies to individuals to have any chance of mitigating…

JL Dutaut

Finola Wilson

Opinion: Workforce

The sector has taken another big step in parent-teacher support

Developments at the National Education Union’s conference give hope that we may soon stem the flow of parents out…

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Emma Sheppard

Opinion: Accountability

How Ofsted can ensure inclusion and equity go hand in hand

Ofsted must ensure its new framework for inclusion is applied consistently and fairly in every school

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Lee Elliot Major

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

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David Spendlove

EXAMS

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,…

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James Handscombe

Exams

The number of penalties handed out to students caught cheating has risen for a second year

The stereotype that could be feeding exam anxiety

The ‘snowflake’ stereotype is damaging and unjustified, but a more pervasive idea may be perpetuating exam anxiety, says Stephen…

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Stephen Caldwell

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