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The Daily Mile is no magic bullet

The low-cost, straightforward and high-profile Daily Mile initiative is drawing wide support, says Andy Daly-Smith, but there is limited…

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A new evaluation report looks at the impact of early years reforms

5 things schools should know about early-years education

Children get profound, long-lasting benefits from their earliest exposure to teaching, from academic and non-cognitive development to better health…

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ALISON PEACOCK
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Can Damian Hinds do the maths on teacher pay?

Over the past few weeks, the education secretary Damian Hinds has been trying to solve a complicated maths problem….

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Contextualised university admissions: how to make them fairer

Now we have consensus that more diverse admissions benefit both students and universities, Sam Butters writes, it’s time to…

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SAM BUTTERS
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Ofsted DOES care about the early years

There is much more to Ofsted’s engagement with the early years sector than the chief inspector’s visits to individual…

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GILL JONES
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Let’s fix school structures, then we can turn to curriculum

It’s eight years this month since Michael Gove slammed the Academies Act through the Commons and gave us the…

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LAURA MCINERNEY
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The schools that are building democracy into their education

This week has been declared the UK’s first-ever ‘National democracy week’ in an effort to get people more interested…

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FIONA CARNIE
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It’s not true that academies care more about money than pupils

Contrary to the claims of some researchers, academisation is not creating a market, and it is not putting finances…

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MARTYN OLIVER
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The early-learning goals aren’t there yet!

The review of early-years assessment has morphed into a review of the curriculum by the back door, argues Beatrice…

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BEATRICE MERRICK

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Alignment between leadership and governance takes work

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Dear DfE, don’t marginalise special schools and AP!

In their quest for an inclusive mainstream setting, ministers must not push specialist settings to the margins

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Are we asking the right questions on assessment?

A new AQA report proposes new assessment models for the millions left lacking critical skills by the current format

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