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: Early Years
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: Teaching Commission

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…

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Yamina Bibi
Opinion: Policy

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: Policy

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…

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Elizabeth Funge
The Curriculum Conversation

How to make curriculum and assessment more inclusive

Making the flexibilities enjoyed by specialist settings available to mainstream schools would benefit all pupils

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Sarah Baker and Rachel Watson
Opinion: SEND

SEND provision is the last bastion of unevidenced practice

We must do better for pupils with SEND whose education is so often made worse by interventions that are…

JL Dutaut
Ben Newmark
Opinion: SEND

SEND reform must be informed by sector voices

Change must take into consideration our innovations and the challenges we face

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Ashley Eastwood
The Knowledge

How are teachers navigating the AI revolution?

Our new survey reveals huge benefits for early adopters – but a profession in need of guidance and support

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Jonathan Park

Must Read

The Curriculum Conversation

How to embed oracy as the national curriculum’s ‘fourth R’

Weaving oracy through all subjects can be focal point for breathing new life into the curriculum as a whole….

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Geoff Barton
Opinion: SEND

A golden opportunity to help fix our broken SEND system

A new consultation invites schools and trusts to lead the way in fixing our broken SEND system

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Andrew O’Neill
Opinion: Policy

We can’t advise our way to school improvement

Failing to deal with legal and regulatory divisions will hamper the government’s attempts to drive up standards – but…

JL Dutaut
Matt Hood

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,…

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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
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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,…

JL Dutaut
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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