Opinion: SEND

The select committee’s SEND report lacks practical answers

The 95 recommendations in ‘Solving the SEND crisis’ are expensive, time-consuming and won’t put us on a path to…

JL Dutaut
Louise Lee
Opinion: Policy

Labour must not let parental expectations lower standards

Ministers must reinforce high expectations when they set out their home-school contract – or risk making an already tough…

JL Dutaut
Sufian Sadiq
Opinion: Curriculum review

Schools need flexibility to respond to their communities’ challenges

The death of a young constituent is a powerful reminder that the curriculum must also prepare young people to…

JL Dutaut
Dr Darren Paffey
Letters to the editor

This week’s best responses from our readers

Missing! A piece of the admissions puzzle. A ministerial responsibility. Support for familes. And clarity from Ofsted.

JL Dutaut
Various
Stat of the nation

What’s really behind white low-income pupils’ underperformance?

A deep dive into new data reveals attention to this cohort is not just political grandstanding

JL Dutaut
John Jerrim
Opinion: CPD

Didagogy: Teacher training’s missing component

Despite recent progress, we’re still getting teacher and leader development wrong too often. This new concept hopes to put…

JL Dutaut
Professor Sam Twiselton
Opinion: Edtech

Moderation of practical assessments at scale is now a reality

Our recent pilot of an AI-powered assessment tool delivered highly reliable results and a reduction in workload. Now you…

JL Dutaut
Victoria Merrick
Opinion: Curriculum

Here’s what every ‘phonics for maths’ programme should deliver

Our new benchmarks aim to take the debate out of what the phrase means and set us on the…

JL Dutaut
Louise Pennington
Opinion: Accountability

Ofsted’s ill-considered inclusion judgment is a poisoned chalice

As well intentioned and ambitious the key judgement is, the absence of detail will result in inconsistency across the…

JL Dutaut
Meena Wood

Must Read

Letters to the editor

This week’s best responses from our readers

How to really drive efficiencies in schools, and what next after Ofsted legal action failure

Freddie Whittaker
Various
Opinion

There’s a sweet spot to be found in setting inspection consistency 

Achieving consistency is fraught with complexity, warns Steve Wren. Go too far and you can rinse insight from Ofsted…

Freddie Whittaker
Steve Wren
Opinion

Teachers must call pupils in, not out, on conspiracy theories  

While teachers need training in how to react, they should meet conspiratorial claims with curiosity, not judgment, says Helena…

Freddie Whittaker
Helena Brothwell

ITT

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

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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