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Opinion: Curriculum

We want to signpost the best curriculum models. But how?

Oak National Academy is gathering teachers’ views on how best to support them to navigate the busy marketplace of…

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Matt Hood

Opinion: Accountability

Ofsted and DfE must open their eyes to the realities of ‘disadvantage’

The inspectorate’s data-blind approach treats disadvantage as a homogenous category and hampers efforts to close attainment gaps

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Meena Kumari Wood and Julie Price-Grimshaw

The Knowledge

How can schools in poor areas attract more teachers?

New research by the National Institute of Teaching shows a mismatch between what schools offer candidates and what teachers…

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Professor Sin Wang Chong

Opinion: Workforce

History’s repetitions offer hope over pay and conditions

As the acrimonious cycle of pay dispute restarts, teachers should draw inspiration from the events of 50 years ago

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David Scott

Opinion: Attendance

Home visits are part of a strong attendance policy

We must have the difficult conversation about parents who don’t play by the rules if we’re going to change…

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David Scales

Opinion: Accountability

We need better measures of disadvantage to better target funding

New research reveals a bigger in-group attainment gap for disadvantaged pupils than exists between them and their peers

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Crispin Chatterton and Jon Andrews

Opinion: Solutions

Recognising and mitigating early signs of mental health issues

Despite variations in how mental health issues manifest from child to child, the value of early discovery can’t be…

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Kayleigh Frost

Opinion: Leadership

New governance guides are a welcome update – and nothing to worry about

The two new DfE guides better reflect the system we have and won’t add to governors’ workloads

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Emma Knights

Manifesto 2024

Five policy priorities for closing disadvantage gaps

Five policies to restart the virtuous cycle between educational outcomes and economic prosperity

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Sir Dan Moynihan

Must Read

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…

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Simon Kidwell

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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

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Michael Fordham

Opinion: Workforce

We’re backing teachers because we have a job to do together

Today’s investment is a clear sign of the government’s commitment to partnership in delivering high and rising standards for…

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Bridget Phillipson

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,…

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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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