Opinion: SEND

Caseworker teams are key to SEND system improvement

Neglecting these crucial SEND workers is a key reason the system is in crisis. They deserve a workforce strategy,…

JL Dutaut
André Imich
Opinion

Government must cut our needless FSM bureaucracy

The case for automatic registration for free school meals in unarguable. Government must support the private members’ bill being…

JL Dutaut
Gemma Piper
Opinion

Government must act now to secure the future of UK science

Filling STEM teacher recruitment gaps and targeting funding at schools in poorer areas would boost the UK economy

JL Dutaut
Sureena Brackenridge MP
Opinion: Solutions

How we’re empowering teachers with high-quality assessment

Our new assessment model delivers transformative capacity for key stage 3 – and you can try it out for…

JL Dutaut
Dale Bassett
Opinion: Solutions

How to build an internal alternative provision that works

These are the key lessons I’ve learned from setting up an internal AP, from reallocating funding to creating a…

JL Dutaut
Sam Strickland
Opinion
More than half of schools did not complete a government catch-up programme for reception children

A new definition to close the school readiness gap

A new sector-led definition of school readiness aims to help all those involved in children’s early development to work…

JL Dutaut
Felicity Gillespie
Opinion

We must address racism to solve the recruitment and retention crisis

The sector is missing out on a huge pool of talent as a result failing to tackle racism in…

JL Dutaut
Yamina Bibi
Opinion

Maintained schools are key to ending our omni-crisis

Failing to hear the voices of the maintained sector is at least partly to blame for the cluster of…

JL Dutaut
Ben Davis
Opinion

The schools bill will allow LAs to ensure all children can thrive

Contrary to criticism, Labour’s bill will make it possible to take the first steps towards more inclusive local responses…

JL Dutaut
Elizabeth Funge

Must Read

Opinion

SEND reforms are a chance to change what we mean by ‘standards’

Let’s be clear about what ‘exceptional’ means now. Exceptional is a school where disadvantaged pupils thrive, not just attend

Freddie Whittaker
Matthew Shanks
The Research Leader

DfE should support struggling private schools to become academies

A targeted approach could help provide a high-quality state-funded education to pupils from a wide range of backgrounds

Freddie Whittaker
Tom Richmond
Opinion

SEND reforms must strengthen legal foundations, not weaken them

Ministers themselves acknowledge that families have endured too much for too long. That is precisely why legal safeguards matter

Freddie Whittaker
Madeleine Cassidy

EXAMS

Assessment

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
Assessment

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

JL Dutaut
Reza Schwitzer
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