Opinion: Policy

How government can balance experience and innovation

As the Forrest Gump of education, here’s what experience has taught me about balancing institutional memory with innovative thinking…

JL Dutaut
Les Walton
The Research Leader

Assumed knowledge: A hidden barrier to social mobility

Knowledge of ‘how the system works’ stacks opportunity in favour of the most well-off. New analysis reveals how the…

JL Dutaut
Nick Brook
Opinion: Solutions

How to ditch teacher appraisal – and what to do instead

Using a tool for development that was actually designed for accountability was hindering our improvement aims. Here’s what we’re…

JL Dutaut
Katie Perry
Opinion: Curriculum

Let’s acknowledge the cost of our knowledge-rich ambition

Nick Gibb is unrepentant, but his vision has hollowed out the curriculum, educational experience and the very definition of…

JL Dutaut
Bernard Andrews
Opinion: Policy

Three ways Labour can remove barriers to local leadership

To deliver a locally responsive education system, Labour must reform potent incentives that work against it

JL Dutaut
Nicola Noble and Liz Robinson
The Research Leader

Understanding the childhood origins of social mobility

How disadvantage translates to poorer outcomes is more complex than sometimes portrayed, reveals our new report

JL Dutaut
Rob Wilson
Opinion: Curriculum review

Unfinished business: Tim Brighouse, the curriculum review and me

Sir Tim Brighouse’s long-time friend and colleague Mick Waters reflects on what the educational giant would have said to…

JL Dutaut
Mick Waters
The Research Leader

What new data tells us about hours spent at school

Our new report delves for the first time on the length of the school week in schools across the…

JL Dutaut
Oana Gavriloiu and Louis Hodge
Oracy Commission

Oracy must become as essential as literacy or numeracy

The oracy commission’s final report calls for oracy to become the ‘fourth R’ of modern education’s emancipatory missions

JL Dutaut
Geoff Barton

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Winter of discontent is a real danger for pupils’ confidence

Data revealed pupils’ sense of agency takes a knock from January, and we’re taking steps to address this, says…

Freddie Whittaker
Lee Wilson
Opinion

A ‘ni hao’ from Chinese visitors was the ultimate language lesson

Saying ‘hello’ to pupils from Nanjing brought learning to life, but anything that adds context can ignite a child’s…

Freddie Whittaker
Cara Bleiman
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Gove’s traditionalists won, but now they see what was lost

Militant discipline and explicit instruction delivered higher exam grades, but the debate has moved on as pupils disengage from…

Freddie Whittaker
Jon Hutchinson

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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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