Opinion: Policy

Ministers are wrong to let an app undermine results day

There’s a certain hypocrisy in rolling out an app that will keep kids at home while professing concern about…

JL Dutaut
Jon Bryan
Opinion: Solutions

How to build a new system on inclusive foundations

We need to re-draw the incentives that drive SEND provision, starting upstream of diagnosis and right down to how…

JL Dutaut
Matt Hood
Opinion

How assessment should (and shouldn’t) evolve in the age of AI

We can no longer ignore how AI is changing the assessment landscape – but it doesn’t mean what many…

JL Dutaut
Daisy Christodoulou
Opinion: Politics

Politicians must set out a brighter vision for children

Reclaiming childhood is key to winning the hearts and minds of disenfranchised communities. Here’s what Labour and the Conservatives…

JL Dutaut
Will Bickford Smith
Opinion: Workforce

The review into leadership NPQs is starting in the wrong place

The way DfE are going about it will not generate the information they need to drive improvement

JL Dutaut
Gareth Conyard and Steve Lancashire
Opinion: Curriculum review

The maths curriculum must catch up with mastery

Developments in teaching maths are being hampered by a curriculum and assessment system that has not caught up. Here’s…

JL Dutaut
Dr Helen Drury and David Monis-Weston
Opinion: Inclusion

We need to advocate for poor white boys – or others will

The opportunity mission must unashamedly include white working-class children or others will capitalise on their disenfranchisement

JL Dutaut
Nick Osborne
Opinion: Estates

‘High and rising standards’ must apply to buildings too

How can we deliver the government’s inclusive vision if its own rebuilding programme drives building standards down?

JL Dutaut
Rebecca Black
Opinion: Funding

Narrow conversations about school budgets miss the big picture

Crucial parts of the story of school budgets are too often left on the cutting room floor. Finance teams…

JL Dutaut
Steve Rollett

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Teachers can make English sing…or mute it with a fronted adverbial

Despite some concerns about the curriculum and assessment review, there is room for hopeful interpretation

Freddie Whittaker
Summer Turner
Opinion

Social mobility can be harmful if it means ditching your roots

Schools need to replace deficit-based narratives with approaches that celebrate belonging, dignity and identity affirmation, says Danielle Lewis-Egonu

Freddie Whittaker
Danielle Lewis-Egnou
The Business Leader

The school business leader role has evolved, but do policymakers know?

Today’s practitioners lead across finance, estates, people, digital systems, governance and organisational improvement. The language we use has not…

Freddie Whittaker
Stephen Morales

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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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